The official Romanian flags appearing in the film, set during Communism, are plain blue-yellow-red, without the Communist emblem.
When the party of four waits to cross the border to Romania, we hear the live radio broadcast of two football matches. One of them is Universitatea Craiova against Kaiserslautern, which took place in 1983; the other one is Steaua against Barcelona, from 1986.
The stationary Militia Dacia in Tirgu Mures is a later model with the rear plastic bumper, which only came out after '96.