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Ballon

Ballon (2018)

Drama, Thriller, Historical, Family, Mystery | Germany, France, United States

Director: Michael Herbig

BBC Four | Thursday, 14 September 2023 | 23:40

Live TV

Thursday, 14 September 2023 23:40

Friday, 27 January 2023 00:05

Sunday, 29 November 2020 22:00

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Rating: 7.5/10

User rating: 8.7/10
(13 votes)

SYNOPSIS

Thüringen, Summer 1979. The Strelzyk and Wetzel families have been working on an audacious plan for more than two years: they want to flee East Germany in a self-made hot-air balloon. But the balloon crash-lands just before the West German border. The Stasi finds traces of the attempted escape and launches immediately an investigation, while the two families are forced, under extreme time pressure, to build a new escape balloon. The Stasi get closer and closer each day – a nerve-racking battle against the clock begins...

Actors

Voice: Kaspar Eichel, Daniela Elhagh, Angela Jacobi, Shirin Lotze, Julia Lowack, Wolfgang Haas, Uwe Kosubek, Daniel Pietzuch

Writer: Kit Hopkins, Thilo Röscheisen

Producer: Ulrike Fauth, Stefan Gärtner

RUNTIME: 125 min

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