Germany!? A flawed film.


It seemed to me that the film was set in Greece, especially since the language spoken is Greek. To have arrived in Germany the children would have first had to have crossed what was then Yugoslavia and next Austria, yet the first border crossing they come to needing passports is...Germany! If they had crossed road borders undetected up until Germany, why didn't they have any language difficulties and why was the young Greek man about to start military service (so still in Greece, presumably) with them until the near end? If the last train was a trans-European train why did they ask only for a ticket to 'the border' and why didn't they face any passport checks before Germany?

Am I missing something? Or does this make no geographical sense? It's a needless flaw. Why Germany!?

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Not really.
You don't see them cross any borders at all...

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They may have never arrived in Germany!


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The children only think they are in Germany at the end. The whole film takes place in Greece except when they cross the border into an unknown country (could be Albania, Yugoslavia or Bulgaria - how do we know they're going in the right direction?). That's why they ask for a ticket (in Greek) to the border because they think Germany is right there.

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Exactly.

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