Balloon
1979, East Germany during the height of the Cold War. Two ordinary families yearning for freedom secretly form a great escape plan to get across to the West: with courage and ingenuity, they build a hot air balloon with small pieces of cloth for their eight family-members to fly over the Berlin Wall. But an initial failure threatens their entire plan, setting off a dangerous race against time for a second attempt, with the State Police now hot on their heels... An incredible true story of r
Director
Michael Bully Herbig
Cast
Friedrich Mucke, Karoline Schuch, David Kross, Alicia von Rittberg, Thomas Kretschmann
Release Date
13-02-2020
Language
German
Run Time
126 minutes
