Goofs

The way Kiesel holds his glass changes (early in movie).

The Soviet planes that bomb the German trench system are actually U.S. Navy Vought F4U Corsairs. You can even see the U.S. military markings on them.

In an already described scene, where Russian soldiers are singing Yugoslav song "Oy Kozaro," there are some more mistakes. The Russian soldiers are all wearing regular Yugoslav People's Army uniforms from the mid 1970's, the trucks are model TAM (made in Slovenia for YU army between 1960-75), the registration plates on the trucks are regular registration plates of YU Army.

When Steiner and his men are waiting to cross the road, the Russian soldiers on the tanks are singing "Oy Kozaro," a Yugoslav fighting song, which Russian soldiers would not know. The Yugoslav extras probably didn't know any Russian songs and figured nobody would know the difference.

During Sgt Steiner's hospitalization for wounds, he yells from the hospital balcony to a driver below, "Corporal, hold that truck!" However, the rank insignia on the driver's shoulder straps clearly indicates that he is a Senior Sergeant.

The German soundtrack gets this detail right. The insignia on the man's shoulder boards show him to be the same rank as Steiner, a "Feldwebel". Steiner addresses him as such.

Oberst Brandt is wearing the Krim shield on his right arm. It is worn on the left arm only.

During the starting minutes (about 10-15 min. after the title credits) of the film, a soldier is shown to be blasted through his waist and back before falling on barbed wire, the gory wound reveals blood bags under the wound which can be very clearly seen.

Although dozens of rifles, submachine guns, and machine guns are fired during the movie, in only one instance are spent cartridge cases shown to be ejecting during firing (this occurs near the end of the film, as Sgt Steiner is firing a captured Russian submachine gun at Lieutenant Treibig).

In the final assault, Russian soldiers are seen firing a PTRS-41 Anti-Tank rifle. The bullet fired caused, upon impact, a massive explosion killing a few German soldiers. That weapon never fired a high-explosive round, and even if it did, the caliber was way too small to create an explosion of such magnitude. The PTRS-41 fired a 14.5×114mm bullet designed for taking out early tanks and trucks.

The rank pips on CPT Stransky's uniform shoulder boards are not installed the same; one set is centered, the other set has the pips unevenly spaced.

Many Russian infantrymen in the film are carrying Mosin-Nagant (M-N) M44 Carbines, some with extended bayonets. However, the M44 did not enter service until the year 1944, and the battle depicted in the movie took place in 1943. The standard Russian rifles during that year were the older M-N M1891/30 rifle and the M-N M38 carbine.

When the Russian woman bathing in the washtub stands up, bikini tan lines are visible.

The Russian tanks used in this movie are T34s with the 85-mm gun which were not in production at the time of the movie. T34s with the 76-mm gun would be the right choice, but there were not many left and quite a few countries still had T34/85s when the movie was made, so the wrong tank was used.