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      • The true story of two families' spectacular escape from East Germany during the Cold War, "Balloon" is a big screen adventure set on the border of a divided nation.
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  2. Sep 27, 2018 · The true story of two families' spectacular escape from East Germany during the Cold War, "Balloon" is a big screen adventure set on the border of a divided nation.

  3. Feb 19, 2020 · Movies about 20th-century Germany tend to focus on, well, you know. 30 years after East and West reunified, however, “Balloon” serves as a reminder of what the country went through once World ...

  4. Box office. $11,859,396 [1] Balloon ( German: Ballon) is a German thriller drama film directed by Michael Herbig that was released in German cinemas on 27 September 2018. The film depicts the crossing of the Inner German border by the Strelzyk and Wetzel families from the GDR to West Germany with a self-made hot-air balloon in 1979.

  5. Dec 9, 2019 · HISTORY. Based on a True Story. The True History of the Aeronauts Who Transformed Our View of the World Above. For early balloonists like James Glaisher, the sky was uncharted—and...

  6. Feb 21, 2020 · Film. Reviews. Feb 21, 2020 3:27pm PT. ‘Balloon’: Film Review. While handsomely made, Michael Bully Herbig’s Cold War-era thriller undersells the fascinating true story of two families escaping...

  7. Mar 12, 2020 · Based on a true story of a hot-air balloon escape from East Germany so celebrated back in the day that Disney starred John Hurt and Beau Bridges in an 1982 English-language version called...

  8. Feb 20, 2020 · Michael Bully Herbig's thriller 'Balloon' recounts the true-life story of how two East German families escaped to the West using a hot-air balloon. By Frank Scheck. February 20, 2020 11:51am....