Upon learning of the building of the Wall, the director and scriptwriter changed the story they were working on to focus on this historic event. For four months a small team filmed with mobile cameras on the streets of East Berlin, capturing both its ordinary life and the extraordinary atmosphere of the period with precision and humor.

Although the Wall itself would later become a taboo subject for East German filmmakers, And Your Love Too deals openly with the topic. The role of the border guard was one of the first major parts played by Academy Award nominee Armin Mueller-Stahl (The Flight, Shine, Angels & Demons).

The film included important documentary footage from Karl Gass’s 1961 Look at This City, including shots of the Soviet-American showdown in October 1961 at Checkpoint Charlie and the public celebration of Soviet astronaut Gherman Titov on East Berlin’s Marx-Engels-Platz. Other Cold War themes such as the Soviet Sputnik program and the Cuban Missile Crisis cast the film's agenda as affirmative of the GDR's separation from the West. Ulli's attic room, where he communicates with a Cuban friend via shortwave radio, suggests parallels between the Wall’s construction and the Cuban "emancipation from capitalism." The phrase "You need to draw a line" becomes the film's core message, repeated by Ulli and Eva at key moments to encourage Klaus–and by exten­sion, the viewers–to accept the German division and to resist the lure of the West. The verbal admonition translates into the image of a dividing black-and-white line on Warschauer Brücke, where both brothers meet on the morning of August 13.