Filmed in 2001, and not released to U.S. theaters until 2003.
Filmed entirely in Cologne, Germany, and on a cruise ship out of Athens, Greece. The ship cruised the Mediterranean for ten days while filming, and stopped in Alexandria, Istanbul, and Rhodes. The island scenes were filmed on the isle of Hydra, Greece.
This movie was widely denounced as homophobic.
Production designer Charles William Breen built the staterooms, hallways, and bridge for the cruise ship on a soundstage in Cologne, Germany.