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Balloon
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. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.
2018 · Directed by Michael Herbig · 125 min · Thriller · Drama · History · 17 frames
Tagline
One of the most daring escapes of the Cold War.
Crew
- Screenplay: Kit Hopkins, Thilo Röscheisen, Michael Herbig
- Cinematography: Torsten Breuer
- Edited by: Alexander Dittner
- Music: Ralf Wengenmayr, Marvin Miller
- Production design: Bernd Lepel
- Produced by: Michael Herbig
Cast
- Karoline Schuch as Doris Strelzyk
- Friedrich Mücke as Peter Strelzyk
- Alicia von Rittberg as Petra Wetzel
- David Kross as Günter Wetzel
- Jonas Holdenrieder as Frank Strelzyk
- Tilman Döbler as Andreas 'Fitscher' Strelzyk
- Thomas Kretschmann as Lieutenant Colonel Seidel
- Ronald Kukulies as Erik Baumann
- Emily Kusche as Klara Baumann
- Ulrich Brandhoff as Lieutenant Colonel Tornow
Production
- Country: France, Germany
- Language: English, German
- Studios: Sat.1, SevenPictures Film, StudioCanal, herbX film
- Box office: $11,859,396
- Themes: berlin wall, german democratic republic, stasi, border patrol, german-german border, hot air balloon, based on true story, escape from german democratic republic , east germany, escape plan
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