Florian Habicht's official site states: ''Florian met Killer Ray at Mac Donalds on Auckland's K Road, after recognizing him from a performance at Squid nightclub. Ray soon became the subject of Florian's hybrid documentary Liebestraume, the Absurd Dreams of Killer Ray, and the two also became close friends. Florian gave Ray a trip to Thailand as a present for doing the film, and Ray never came back! The film crew had to travel to Bangkok to complete the film.''
The film's title, ''liebesträume'', is a German word, and translates into the English language as ''love dream''.
Second film of filmmaker Florian Habicht featuring the word liebesträume / liebestraume in the title after 'Liebesträume' (1997).
According to the 'NZ on Screen' website, ''February 2000 saw the debut of [Florian] Habicht's first feature: the 66-minute Liebesträume - The Absurd Dreams of Killer Ray, inspired by cult entertainer 'Killer Ray' (aka Ramon Ronald Edmundson). Like a number of Habicht's films to come - most notably 'Rubbings from a Live Man' - it mixes drama and documentary, spinning sometimes fantastical tales from the memories of the genre-crossing jazz musician (who died in 2005). The film is not to be confused with early Habicht short film, oddball romance Liebesträume.''
Reportedly, first funded digital theatrical feature film from New Zealand.