(1) In the very beginning, as the two women talk through the window, the German language in which they are speaking seems to have some English wording thrown in: "You suddenly got religion." ?? Does this foreshadow that the two women were previously ladies of the night?
(2) A fleeing Jewish lady on a barge is wearing her weighted-down jewels that look like they are worth millions, prominently displayed on her bare neck, with no attempt to keep them under cover.
(3) As the machine-gunning of the barge is going on, the leading lady of the movie shows no panic on her face, just a bit of amazement and stands right up to help out a man who had previously helped her because he was hit, even though her whole family is next to her and being shot at, too. She looks around as if she is concerned about a sick pet rather than everyone she loves being massacred.
(4) Not unusual in many films, but one of the next scenes---supposedly with pouring rain---includes sun streaming across the road and the grass.
(5) As the leading lady is hiding and escaping over a period of a few days, her eyeliner, mascara, eyeshadow, blush and lipstick don't alter even though she has lost all her worldly goods; on the contrary, all remains in place as at the moment she stepped away from the film's makeup artist. In a later scene, after she was cooped up (hiding) in a casket and had rain pour on her when the Germans insisted the casket be opened up, she eventually emerges without a drop on her lovely gown. How did the rain dry off inside that almost airless environment? Further makeup oddities: 5 months later as she is working the grind at a fish cutting plant, her beautiful makeup job is still in place as if she is ready for opening night at a Broadway play.
(6) In a scene involving about 7 Germans with machine guns bursting into a warehouse, a resister singlehandedly takes them all out using, first, a machine gun, then he puts that down to switch to a pistol, then back to a machine gun, but none of the Germans took him out. Amazing.
(7) In one of the next scenes, a truck crashes into a building and a group of employees at a desk not too far away from the wall where the truck crashed haven't noticed and have to be informed about the crash because they are still standing up at a desk together studying some paperwork.
And this is all in the first 45 minutes.
Film is saved, finally, by the acting of Sebastian Koch. All who were involved in the endeavor should get down on their knees in thanks that his acting and appeal came to the rescue; that is the only way I figure this film was ever considered for any awards.
(2) A fleeing Jewish lady on a barge is wearing her weighted-down jewels that look like they are worth millions, prominently displayed on her bare neck, with no attempt to keep them under cover.
(3) As the machine-gunning of the barge is going on, the leading lady of the movie shows no panic on her face, just a bit of amazement and stands right up to help out a man who had previously helped her because he was hit, even though her whole family is next to her and being shot at, too. She looks around as if she is concerned about a sick pet rather than everyone she loves being massacred.
(4) Not unusual in many films, but one of the next scenes---supposedly with pouring rain---includes sun streaming across the road and the grass.
(5) As the leading lady is hiding and escaping over a period of a few days, her eyeliner, mascara, eyeshadow, blush and lipstick don't alter even though she has lost all her worldly goods; on the contrary, all remains in place as at the moment she stepped away from the film's makeup artist. In a later scene, after she was cooped up (hiding) in a casket and had rain pour on her when the Germans insisted the casket be opened up, she eventually emerges without a drop on her lovely gown. How did the rain dry off inside that almost airless environment? Further makeup oddities: 5 months later as she is working the grind at a fish cutting plant, her beautiful makeup job is still in place as if she is ready for opening night at a Broadway play.
(6) In a scene involving about 7 Germans with machine guns bursting into a warehouse, a resister singlehandedly takes them all out using, first, a machine gun, then he puts that down to switch to a pistol, then back to a machine gun, but none of the Germans took him out. Amazing.
(7) In one of the next scenes, a truck crashes into a building and a group of employees at a desk not too far away from the wall where the truck crashed haven't noticed and have to be informed about the crash because they are still standing up at a desk together studying some paperwork.
And this is all in the first 45 minutes.
Film is saved, finally, by the acting of Sebastian Koch. All who were involved in the endeavor should get down on their knees in thanks that his acting and appeal came to the rescue; that is the only way I figure this film was ever considered for any awards.
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