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of all modern languages. Special effects in the film were done by Santa Monica's Radium, a firm with credits ranging from Target commercials to feature films like Spider-Man 2. According to online press releases, the film was shot over the course of 2 months, a fairly long shoot by the standards of

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, and was entirely independently financed. The film's cast is international and diverse, with German ingénue Anna Bäumer as the linguist, and veteran

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films. The movie also used several local actors from the states of Texas and Oklahoma. Oklahoma City was used for a lot of the scene in the movie and housed the Isis Production Company office for the shoot of the film.

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