Balloon (2018)

72

IMDb

7.5

/13302/

Trakt

76

/745/

TMDb

75

/400/

Letterboxd

3.6

/8963/

Tomatoes

70

/30/

Audience

84

/57/

Metacritic

53

/9/

TMDB via JustWatch

Runtime: 125 min.

Status: Released

Certification: NR

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller

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Production companies: herbX Film, Sat.1, StudioCanal, SevenPictures Film

Balloon (2018)

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller

Keywords: tmdb.berlin-wall, tmdb.german-democratic-republic, tmdb.border-patrol, tmdb.german-german-border, tmdb.hot-air-balloon, tmdb.escape-from-german-democratic-republic, tmdb.east-germany + 56 more, tmdb.escape-plan, mdblist.ext.4k-blu-ray, tmdb.based-on-true-story, tmdb.stasi, mdblist.fresh, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.east-germany, imdb.year-1979, imdb.berlin-germany, imdb.1970s, imdb.based-on-true-story, imdb.germany, imdb.lieutenant-colonel, imdb.stasi, imdb.hot-air-balloon, imdb.hot-air-balloon-crash, imdb.year-1989, imdb.east-berlin-east-germany, imdb.hotel-room, imdb.u-s-embassy, imdb.archive-footage, imdb.teenage-boy, imdb.teenage-girl, imdb.first-kiss, imdb.kite-flying, imdb.pharmacy, imdb.pharmacist, imdb.reference-to-kiss, imdb.reference-to-farrah-fawcett, imdb.husband-wife-relationship, imdb.group-of-friends, imdb.reference-to-erich-honecker, imdb.interrogation, imdb.reference-to-erich-mielke, imdb.manhunt, imdb.two-on-a-motorcycle, imdb.pretending-to-be-drunk, imdb.sewing, imdb.sewing-machine, imdb.west-german-east-german-border, imdb.electrician, imdb.physicist, imdb.american-abroad, imdb.american-in-east-germany, imdb.father-son-relationship, imdb.mother-son-talk, imdb.mother-son-relationship, imdb.kindergarten, imdb.fabric, imdb.border-patrol-officer, imdb.speech, imdb.propane-tank, imdb.east-german-defector, imdb.teenage-son, imdb.defection, imdb.kindergarten-teacher