 FACT: During the scene where the plantation house is burning, as  Eliane walks past a group of colonial soldiers, we see that they are  carrying British No.4 rifles. Firstly, French colonial soldiers  would have not been equipped with British rifles. Secondly, the No.4  rifle, a simplified version of the No.1, wasnt produced until 1939.  Since the film takes place in the early 1930s, it would have been  impossible for anybody to have had these weapons, as they didnt  exist yet.