One of the actors, an Austrian, had to be replaced because he was stabbed when an Iraqi attacked several Europeans just weeks before production began. Casting the lead actress proved very difficult as most Yemeni women worried that appearing in a film would hurt their prospects of marriage. A Lebanese actress was cast. On the first day of shooting in Feb. 2004, a group of Islamic extremists stormed the set and stopped production. Soldiers had to guard the set after this incident. The ...[Read Story ]