After scouting locations in Stockholm in Sweden, Helsinki in Finland and Vienna in Austria, director, producer and co-writer Paul Mazursky and co-producer and production designer Pato Guzman decided that Munich in West Germany would be their Moscow. "We first found the back-lot in a catalog from Bavaria Studios," recalled Guzman. "It was a little round picture of an Eastern European street. We had been considering a number of European cities but realized that to have full control of a street in any city in the world is almost impossible. Shooting at Bavaria Studios meant we could control the shots, control the lines, and not have to deal with the reality of city problems. In the meantime, Paul discovered that many Russians actually live in Munich, and he also learned that it has a one-ring circus, so it became even more attractive to us." Mazursky added: "Several months later, our cinematographer Don McAlpine, Pato and I made a trip to Munich with very specific concepts of how we would transform a German street into a Russian street. Don decided to shoot what we had in mind with a Super-8 camera. Using German tourists who were on a tour of Bavaria Studios, we created our street scene, shot it and for the first time saw our vision begin to come to life."

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