The Anna Wendt Filmproduktion GmbH produced the movie and the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg and the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg were co-producers.
So Harald Mühlbeyer of German film magazine kino-zeit.de praises that Oliver Alaluukas "traces the development of the rocket Perelman from the newcomer's point of view in beautiful, wide Cinemascope images."
Moreover, the critic notes that this is "psychologically not as intense as Marie Kreutzer's The Fatherless" and "cinematically not as radical as Lars von Trier's Idiots."
The actors "lend their characters a high degree of natural charm with their sympathetic, down-to-earth, unaffected acting style."
Cinematographer Valentin Selmke also makes his long-distance debut, wrestling many an impressive view from the Brandenburg landscape or the nighttime party in the fluorescent look."