Stander (2003)
Goofs
Anachronisms
Top view of a parking space in a city in South Africa. The painted numbers on the road to indicate the parking space number for parking meter purposes, was only introduced in South Africa at least after 2000.
Early in the movie, Stander is watching the news on a flat screen television. These were not on the market at that time.
On the DVD commentary, director Bronwen Hughes points out that although the Toyi-Toyi's presented in the film are authentic, the AK47 Toyi-Toyi is a later incarnation of the chant, much more aggressive than the one that would have been used in the mid-1970's when the riot scenes take place.
During the beach scene with his wife, Stander is shown using a Voigtlander Bessa-T camera, which was not available until 2001.
In one version of the film poster, the character Stander is shown holding a weapon. The weapon is a South African Mechem BXP submachine gun. It was not produced until four years after the real Andre Stander died.
In an early scene between police and protestors, a Bell 407 helicopter is seen providing air support. The Bell 407 was introduced into commercial use in 1996, twenty years after the events depicted.
The film is set in the mid- to late-1970s and early-1980s,
but some of the car registration plates are from much later, even as far forward as the early-1990s.
Factual errors
In the film, Andre Stander received a 32 year sentence for his bank robberies. In real life, he was in fact sentenced to a total of 75 years.
Revealing mistakes
In the scene where the police stop him for running a red light, a key is seen in the ignition when Stander turned off the engine. In the previous scene, he had hot-wired the car to steal it.
