Balloon
– Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape DDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes ..
Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape DDR 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. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.
27 Sep 2018
German, English
Michael Herbig
Kit Hopkins (screenplay), Thilo Röscheisen (screenplay), Michael Herbig (screenplay)
Friedrich Mücke, Karoline Schuch, David Kross, Alicia von Rittberg
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.