| 1 | * ActorSharedBackground: [[Creator/MarcelMarceau Marcel Mangel/Marceau]] was of [[UsefulNotes/PolishJews Polish Jewish]] descent, as is Creator/JesseEisenberg. |
| 2 | * BoxOfficeBomb: The film had the dubious honor of topping the box office in its theatrical opening weekend (April 17, 2020, during the first wave of UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic lockdowns) by earning... $2,490 on ''one screen'' (theaters were shut stateside, it was also released on video on demand otherwise). It made $282,228 during its theatrical exploitation thanks to drive-in theaters, far from recouping its budget. |
| 3 | * DawsonCasting: Marcel was 16 when UsefulNotes/WorldWarII broke out, he's played by a 35 year old Jesse Eisenberg. |
| 4 | * DirectToVideo: The film was released on video on demand in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, though it also had a theatrical run in drive-ins. |
| 5 | * FakeNationality: |
| 6 | ** Jesse Eisenberg is American and plays the French Marcel Mangel. |
| 7 | ** The Hungarian Géza Röhrig as the French Georges Loinger, Marcel's cousin. |
| 8 | ** Creator/BellaRamsey as the German Jewish Elsbeth. |
| 9 | * InternationalCoproduction: The film was funded by American, British and German production companies. |
| 10 | * PlayingAgainstType: Creator/MatthiasSchweighofer is famous for his comedy works in Germany, he had never played anything close to a Nazi antagonist such as Klaus Barbie before. |
| 11 | * ProducedByCastMember: One of the production companies of the film is Pantaleon Films, the company of Matthias Schweighöfer, who plays Klaus Barbie. |
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