When rehearsing Goethe's "Iphiganie on Tauris," Fassbinder suggests giving the audience tomatoes to either eat or to throw at the actors. While this idea is true, it was made for a different performance in this theater: "Leonce and Lena" by Georg Büchner.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder said that he met El Hedi ben Salem in a sauna in the Rue Belgrand. In real life the sauna where they met was in the Rue Saint-Honore.
When mentioning '50s trash movies with Barbara Valentin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder mentioned Horrors of Spider Island (1960), a movie that came out in 1960.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Armin Meier watch a news report about the hijacked airplane "Lufthansa Flight 181" from Palma de Mallorca to Frankfurt, which happened on the 13th October 1977. One scene later Kurt Raab enter the room and Fassbinder tells him to leave and that he will change the flat locks afterwards. In real life they separated after the premiere of Adolf und Marlene (1977) which was on 15th March 1977. Furthermore when Raab arrived in Munich the locks were already changed and he was only allowed to get his things.
The movie "Whity", which in the movie was named 'Blacky' or 'The Satan Women of Titfield Valley' was shot in Spain, not in Italy.
The news bulletin during the closing credits calls Fassbinder a "36-years-old". Fassbinder was 37 when he died. However this could be taken directly for a real news bulletin who said it by mistake.
In the cafe', Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Kurt Raab meet Walter Bockmayer and talk about his latest movie about a woman from Cologne who thinks she is Tarzan's Jane. The movie in question is Jane Is Jane Forever (1977) which had its premiere in 1977; while the scene is set in 1973.
In Sorrento in 1970 the song "Suave Amor" by Brice Davoli and Cesar De La Santino is played. The song came out in 2016.
In Sorrento in 1970 a man is reading "Corriere Sportivo"; the layout is different from the one that was used in 1970.
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