Balloon

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 homemade hot-air balloon. But the balloon crash lands just before the West German border. The Stasi finds traces of the attempted escape and launches an investigation while the two families are forced, under extreme pressure, to build a new escape balloon. The Stasi get closer and closer each day as a nerve-racking battle against the clock begins. Based on a true story.