The movie contains mainly freestyle skiing scenes with Willy Bogner as director and cameraman.
Besides skiing scenes, the movie contains snowboarding, hanggliding and windsurfing scenes with sports talents Gianfranco L'Amore, Jan Bucher and Mike Waltze.
Marietta Waters performed the title track Fire and Ice.
With Fire and Ice, Bogner won the Bavarian Film Awards (Special Prize) in 1986, and a Bambi in 1985.
Bogner directed a kind of sequel in 1990, named Fire, Ice and Dynamite.