MovieChat Forums > Flammen & Citronen (2008) Discussion > Average film with a fair few plot holes

Average film with a fair few plot holes


Reasonably interesting premise, but a few things throughout just made it unrealistic.

One: It seems hard to imagine that there was that much booze and petrol around in wartime Europe

Two: The Germans were enormously incompetent at times, almost unbelievably so.
Like when they allowed Flame to escape from the bar when he went after the Gestapo boss.
Or when they took so long to kill Citron.
Or when they took so long to break into Flame's house.

Three: To the best of my knowledge, the Gestapo never brought partisans all the way to their headquarters to then stand them up in a truck outside and fire at them from several feet away.

Four: When Citron went to leap the fence, Flame was able to just walk away without any of the dozens of Germans there noticing. Ridiculous.

All of these took away considerably from the film, in my opinion.

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I am not sure exactly about how "long" it took for them to kill Citron, but I did read (albeit, from Wikipedia) that Citron did kill 11 and wounded others before dying. Sounds like the movie did show that part rather accurately.

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Some of your points actually seemed to be well handled by the film.

http://www.timelapse.dk/citronen.php

If the idea is to stay alive, I'm driving.

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They escaped from going to KZ camps because the Germans didn't want to use all force on taking them there. They just wanted to dismantle the police force. So what if one policeman runs away? They don't care as long as he is gone.

In the bar they shot everyone there. So there were no one to stop them.

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definitely the scene where they escape from the bar full of Gestapo guards was pretty unrealistic and had me rolling my eyes.

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Interesting.

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