Ballon
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 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 an escape balloon. The Stasi get closer and closer each day racking battle against the clock begins...
Starring Karoline Schuch, Friedrich Mücke, Alicia von Rittberg, David Kross, Jonas Holdenrieder, Tilman Döbler, Thomas Kretschmann, Ronald Kukulies, Emily Kusche, Ulrich Brandhoff
It's a drama and history movie, and has a rating of 7.5 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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