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Sep 27, 2018 · In the summer of 1979, in Thüringen, in East Germany, two families put together a crazy plan. They are desperate to leave the DDR for the 'West' and plan to flee in a homemade hot air balloon. After sewing and tinkering for weeks, the amateurs make their first attempt.
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After initially failing to flee from the East to the West in a self-built hot-air balloon, two families struggle to make a second attempt, while the East German State Police are chasing them. In the summer of 1979, in Thüringen, in East Germany, two families put together a crazy plan.
Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon.
One of the most daring escapes of the Cold War. Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border.
Balloon is a German thriller that deals with the crossing of the inner German border of the families Strelzyk and Wetzel from the GDR to West Germany with a homemade hot-air balloon.
How to watch online, stream, rent or buy Balloon (2018) in the UK + release dates, reviews and trailers. Two families attempt to escape across the East German border during the Cold War in a hot air balloon in this German true story drama-thriller.
