Continuity mistake: When Ellie is speaking with Kurt in the courtyard, as she says "But don't ever do anything so crazy again", Kurt is raising a cigarette to his mouth. In the next shot, his hand is lowered and the cigarette is away from his mouth. (01:11:55)
Continuity mistake: When Kurt and Ellie are lying in bed together at night, Ellie is stroking Kurt's head. When the camera changes angles, her hand is around his neck. (01:07:53)
Continuity mistake: When Kurt and Ellie are in bed together, in the first shot of them, Ellie's neck is shadowed. Then it cuts to a close-up of Ellie where sunlight can now be seen on her neck. (01:06:18)
Continuity mistake: When Kurt is trying on the clothes Ellie has for him, in the shot where he starts putting on the trousers, Ellie is holding a shirt in her raised hand. She isn't shown lowering her hand, but when the shot cuts back to focus on her, her hand is lowered slightly. (01:05:25)
Continuity mistake: Whilst Kurt is painting in his classroom, Ellie comes in with some clothes for him. When the camera cuts to a closer angle of Kurt, Ellie jumps forward a couple of feet in between shots. (01:04:25)
Continuity mistake: When Kurt asks Ellie for a walk in the park, there is a pencil shown on her desk. Two shots after, the pencil has suddenly moved onto her drawing book. (00:58:20)
Continuity mistake: When Kurt's classmate begins to walk away from Ellie's desk after getting turned down, the pencil he is holding is raised to his stomach. When the camera changes angles, the pencil is suddenly lowered down to below his hip. (00:57:20)
Continuity mistake: When Kurt's classmate walks up to Ellie's desk, after she asks "2B or 4B", the shot cuts to the classmate, then back to Ellie. In the shot of Ellie, her cigarette is lowered. But in the next shot, her cigarette is suddenly raised to her mouth. (00:56:58)
Continuity mistake: Whilst Kurt's teacher is giving a lecture, just as the teacher says "At first, it will lead to being subsidized", to the left of the shot, the student sitting next to Kurt is with his hand raised to his mouth and biting onto a pencil. The camera then cuts to the students and the pencil is no longer in the student's mouth. (00:53:00)
Continuity mistake: When Kurt is caught drawing by his boss, he knocks over the paint tin on his work desk. There is a paint brush in it that is pointed toward him when he picks it back up. Two shots later, the paint brush is suddenly pointed in the opposite direction. Three shots after that, the paint brush is suddenly back to its original position. (00:50:05)
Continuity mistake: Whilst Kurt is painting the banners, just as his colleague asks "Do you do that so you can feel better than us", the letter O that Kurt is painting is more than half way filled in. About twenty seconds later, after speaking with the colleague briefly, the letter O is only half filled in. (00:49:05 - 00:49:30)
Continuity mistake: Waltraud walks up to Johann and places a tea pot on his work desk. Both straps of the apron she is wearing are shown over her shoulders. In the next shot, the strap on the left-hand side is suddenly off her shoulder and down by her elbow. The strap is then over her shoulder again in the next shot, then off her shoulder in the shot after that. (00:47:27)
Continuity mistake: Whilst in labor, the doctor places his hands over the Major's wife's belly. The shot then cuts to the wife saying "Too hot" and the doctor's hands cannot be seen around her belly. (00:38:30)
Continuity mistake: When the Major's wife is in labor, after the doctor takes off his stethoscope, the wife is shown with her left hand on her belly and is looking directly forward. In the next shot, her left hand is on the bed and is looking to the left. (00:38:25)
Continuity mistake: When the Russians confront Carl in his office, Carl begins to raise his hands slightly so that they can handcuff him. In the first shot, he is in the middle of raising his hands. But in the next shot, his hands are raised to be level with his stomach and are completely still. (00:34:52)
Continuity mistake: When the Russians drive up to the destroyed building, a woman in a blue dress can be seen. The woman's hat falls off, and she begins to turn around to pick it up. In the next shot, she is suddenly facing forwards again with the hat back in her hand. (00:34:32)
Continuity mistake: When the Russians approach the destroyed building to take Carl into custody, three women can be seen walking past it. The woman in the red dress and the woman in the green dress are side by side. When the camera cuts to a closer angle, the woman in the red dress is ahead of the woman in the green dress. (00:34:31)
Continuity mistake: Kurt and his grandmother are watching the bomber planes fly over their house. His mother then comes outside and in the first shot of her, no hair can be seen going over the front of her nightgown. In the next shot, there is suddenly some hair shown going over the front of it. (00:31:08)
Audio problem: When the nurse at the hospital tells the family that Elisabeth was transferred two days prior, Waltraud says "Transferred? That's impossible" and doesn't say anything else. The camera then changes angles to focus on the nurse and Waltraud's mouth, visible in the left hand corner of the frame, can be seen moving briefly, even though she already finished the line and didn't say anything else. (00:29:17)
Continuity mistake: Johann is given a Nazi pin and is told not to forget the "Heil Hitler" salute. Just after this happens, Kurt's mother walks ahead of Johann and he can be seen behind her with his hands at his side. The shot then cuts and Johann's hands are suddenly raised so that he can adjust the Nazi pin. (00:28:23)
