Continuity mistake: When Carl leaves his office, Elisabeth goes to look at the medical report on his desk. In the shot of her standing from her chair and reaching over to the desk, there is no pen beside the folder. When she picks up the report in the next shot, a pen has suddenly appeared next to it. (00:23:45)
Continuity mistake: After Elisabeth sees the drawing that Carl's daughter made, she asks "Did your daughter paint that" and the shot cuts to Carl looking toward her. In this shot, he is leaning against the desk as he is writing in the report. A few seconds later, he asks why she thinks she is there, sitting in the same position. He doesn't move when the camera cuts to Elisabeth, but he is suddenly leaning to the right when it cuts back. (00:22:26)
Continuity mistake: When Elisabeth sits down in the chair in Carl's office, hair can be seen going over her shoulders In the shot of her looking at Carl after sitting down, a lot of hair can be seen over the top of her right shoulder. The camera cuts to a side view and there is suddenly much less hair on top of her right shoulder. (00:22:10)
Continuity mistake: When Elisabeth walks into Carl's office, he is looking through her file. He is shown taking a page on the right-hand side, and begins to turn it over. When the camera changes angles, he has suddenly finished turning the page in the opposite direction. (00:21:20)
Continuity mistake: Whilst the doctors are trying to get Elisabeth into the van, one of them injects her to get her to relax. When this happens, her arm is lowered. But in the next shot, her forearm is suddenly raised. (00:17:46)
Continuity mistake: When Elisabeth is saying goodbye to the family, she hugs Ehrenfried and steps away from him. In the next shot, he is still holding her slightly before letting go a second time. (00:17:15)
Continuity mistake: After Elisabeth leaves the doctor's office, the doctor resumes speaking with Elisabeth's mother and sister. Whilst the doctor says "As schizophrenia is a hereditary condition", the sister is looking at the mother. When the shot cuts, she is now looking at the doctor. (00:15:13)
Continuity mistake: When Elisabeth's mother and sister are speaking with the doctor, as the doctor says "In an institution, yes", Elisabeth's mother's hands can be seen virtually still. When the shot cuts, her hands are suddenly moving around while she speaks. (00:14:50)
Continuity mistake: When Kurt sees Elisabeth playing the piano naked in the living room, he is shown walking through the doorway. The camera then cuts to focus on Elisabeth and in the background of the shot, Kurt can be seen walking through the doorway a second time. (00:12:30)
Continuity mistake: When Kurt is drawing the picture of a naked lady, in the above shot where the camera shows what he is drawing, the pencil he is holding is held at an upright position. When the camera changes angles, the pencil is tilted at an angle away from Kurt. (00:11:45)
Continuity mistake: When the Nazi officer gives Elisabeth the bouquet to give to Hitler, in the shot of him saying "You'll give him the bouquet", he is standing so that his body is positioned mostly behind her. When the camera changes angles, he is standing at her side. (00:10:43)
Continuity mistake: Elisabeth meets up with a large group of women in preparation for Hitler's arrival. When she stops, a woman adjusts her collar. In the wide shot, her left hand is positioned so that her thumb is placed on the front side of the collar, and her fingers on the bottom side. But in the next shot, her left hand is now positioned so that her thumb is on the bottom side of the collar and her fingers on the front side. (00:10:23)
Continuity mistake: When Kurt is talking about all the people he misses, whilst he says "He always comes to me when I call his name", Kurt is looking straight forward. When the shot cuts, he is suddenly looking at Elisabeth. (00:06:08)
Continuity mistake: When Kurt and Elisabeth are on the bus, Kurt points to where his old apartment was and lowers his hand. When he does this, he is looking directly forward. In the next shot, he is suddenly looking downward. (00:05:18)
Continuity mistake: During the tour in the art gallery, Kurt and Elisabeth stop to listen to the tour guide. When the camera cuts to a closer shot of Kurt, a man in a brown jacket and beige sweater vest has suddenly appeared behind Kurt that was not visible in the previous shot. (00:02:05)
Continuity mistake: When the movie opens on the tour guide, whilst he says "Until the National Socialists came to power", his hands are at his side. When the shot cuts, his hands are clasped behind his back. (00:00:35)
Continuity mistake: When Kurt has finished giving his thoughts on the lottery numbers in the newspaper, Antonius thinks to himself and turns to his desk. He places his fist over his mouth, but when the shot cuts, his fist is lowered. (02:13:00)
Continuity mistake: When Kurt is in his first lecture at the Dusseldorf academy, whilst Antonius says "If he develops his own subjective abilities without external guidelines", Kurt can be seen in the background with his left hand placed over his right and both hands are equally distanced apart. When the shot cuts to him, the right hand has suddenly moved closer to the left hand. (02:03:35)
Continuity mistake: When Kurt and Ellie are first speaking with each other, just after he spits out the razor he put in his mouth, the cigarette that Ellie is shown holding and the hand she is holding it with change position every single time the shot cuts. (00:58:04)
