I first suspected she was a double agent when she fired the gun across the walls and balcony without hitting anyone. I believe she only shot one man in that entire scene, and that was because he was about to shoot her.
shareI hadn´t realized that. It is a detail
shareI wondered about that as well. It makes so much sense now.
sharei thought it was to cover their tracks, to make it looks like some amateurs instead of trained assassins
shareBut they reveal in the movie that it turned out the ambassador was an enemy of Hitler and Hitler wanted him dead so with her being a spy she should've had no problem killing him and his men.
shareI figured that was like suppressive fire to keep everyone on the ground
shareintersting point OP,
at the end she said she was balckmailed over the baby , so very different scenario from bein g a 2x agent at the beginning
She would say anything - she was lost
shareBut she had no baby when she started to work for the Germans. After she got to England, I am not sure how the Germans could have threatened her, or her husband and child. She could have just turned herself in to the British authorities and she would have been put under protection.
As for the original question, I think they wanted to assassinate the ambassador but had no reason to increase casualties needlessly shooting also his staff and even innocent bystanders unless their own lives were threatened. They just wanted the others to drop to the ground and not intervene. In one scene, Marianne pointed her gun at the woman whose husband had already been shot dead earlier but did not fire.
Maybe I'm alone on this one, but I figured that it was suppressive fire to keep everyone on the ground.
sharePlus, she kills the man who was her friend and leaves his wife alive...
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