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When Alex throws the useless GDR money from the rooftop Lara is sitting on the rim, wearing a red t-shirt. When Alex walks over to her and she gets up she's wearing the light-blue jacket she was sitting on. See more...

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After the father had gone to the west he had been writing to his family for three years but never got a response because the mother intercepted all the letters. It remains a mystery how she had been able to do that since he had been writing to their home address - the mother has a full-time job and comes home in the evening. The kids come home after school. Of course they would check the letterbox, at least from time to time. Given the load of letters the father had written the odds are too high they would have come across one of them. [Pretty simple, actually - she could have been the only one with a key to the mailbox.]
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Alex's sister gets a coke bottle from the fridge and drops it when she tries to open it. She obviously drops it deliberately. [She drops it deliberately because her nose was bleeding.]
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In the film, some people are watching the World Cup semifinal match between Germany and England. Outside, it's daylight. On the TV screen, it's night. Since the scene takes place in Germany and Italy (where the World Cup took place) are in the same time zone, it's not possible to have day in one place and night in the other. [This is possible. In summer it gets dark earlier in the south of the time zone than in the north. In north of Norway (where I'm from) its midnight sun in this time zone during summer. I guess the Berlin area will stay "day" an hour or two more than Italy during the World Cup.]
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In the scene where Alex and his friend are cutting films together, you can see, that the friend of Alex has got a t-shirt on with the matrix code on it. The film is set in 1990 and The Matrix was made in 1999. [I thought so too, but I took a closer look and it isn't a Matrix shirt. It just looks very, very, very much like the Matrix code.]
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When the family are driving to the Datscha, Alex is in the back seat of the Trabant, and his blindfolded mother next to the driver in the front. First out of the car is Alex, to help his mother. However the driver and the mother are still blocking the only 2 doors of the car, which begs the quesion: how did Alex get out? [He just came out a little bit earlier to open the gate and then helped her mother to leave the car again. She just did it twice - once outside the fence without Alex's help and then inside.]
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Despite what the film portrays, it was not completely impossible to exchange East German marks for West German ones after the July 1990 deadline. Having a mother in a coma would undoubtedly have been an acceptable reason to exchange money a few days or weeks later. [Even though this is probably true, it is still more than possible that the petty bureaucrat that Alex is dealing with is just trying to exert his small amount of power. We don't see Alex or his sister ask anyone else for advice on the matter.]
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At the beginning of the film, where Alex is still a kid and drawing a spaceship, he's drawing it with his right hand. Later in the film, where he's an adult, you can see, when he writes down the times of the shifts of Lara the nurse in the hospital, he's left handed. [There might be another explanation. In East Germany it wasn't allowed to use your left hand for writing is school. We were forced to write with the right hand. Later on - rules got loose. Just like myself I started using my left hand for writing as well. That might explain a hidden hint (East-West) in the movie.]
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