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One, Two, Three (1961) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: In the Grand Hotel Potemkin sequence showing the crossed Soviet and East German flags, the East German flag is upside down (black stripe should be on the top); maybe this was a deliberate error on the part of the filmmakers.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the end of the first verse of "Yes, We Have No Bananas", the orchestra leader stops singing the song and closes his mouth while on the soundtrack his voice continues singing.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the Grand Hotel Potemkin scene, Peripetchikoff says "We cannot interfere with internal affairs of sovereign Republic of East Germany." The correct formal name of the country was the German Democratic Republic.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: In the shots from the west side of the Brandenburg Gate, a sign is shown reading: "ACHTUNG! YOU ARE NOW LEAVING WEST BERLIN." No such sign, in mixed German and English, was ever posted in Berlin. The signs advising that one was leaving or entering one of the four sectors of the divided city were all written in four languages: German, English, French and Russian. Apart from its factual inaccuracy, it would make no sense to post a sign written partially in one language and partially in another.
  
  
• Continuity: When James Cagney's car is checked by East German security at the Brandenburg Gate, Cagney gives a guard a six-pack of Coca Cola. After the car passes into East Berlin we see the guard open a bottle of Coca Cola by smashing the bottle neck against a sign post. When the car returns later, a guard returns the "empties" and we see that all bottles are intact.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the scene with the three MPs, when one opens the door and says he wants to be taken away, the other soldier call him "Sarge" at least twice. However, the insignia on his sleeve shows he's a Specialist 4th Class, a lower rank.
  
  

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