Joyeux Noël

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• Movie Goof (factual errors): Most of the Christmas Truces began as a mutual agreement by both sides to bury their dead. In absolutely no case was there any record of the incident being started by a singer moving out into No Man's Land carry a lit-up Christmas Tree. In many cases where Germans did venture into No Man's Land, they were shot by snipers.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): When Anna and Nikolaus are kissing in the scene before they make love, in a close up shot their lips are almost touching, and in the next shot their heads are next to each other cheek to cheek, and they're hugging.
• Movie Goof (plot holes): When the three commanders meet and discuss their wives, the French commander says he lost the photo of his wife and shows a sketch. The German commander recognizes the sketch of the woman from a photo that is inside a wallet he found on the battlefield (and subsequently returns the wallet to the French officer). However, in the beginning of the film, the French commander is looking at that photo. In the shot, the photo is of both the commander and his wife. If the German officer can recognize the wife from a sketch, surely he would recognize the French commander when seeing him in person?
• Movie Goof (factual errors): There is no record of any women visiting the front line during a Christmas Truce, let alone an opera singer giving an impromptu recital. Director Christian Carion said in the DVD commentary that he would not "spend three months shooting men in uniforms" and included the "pure moment of fantasy" of a woman, "and what a woman," singing for the soldiers. The film was advertized as "based on a true story", but it is really based on many stories. Carion said he read letters telling of French women who succeeded in visiting their men at the front and then created the German love story to further humanize the Germans, the traditional bad guys in war movies.