Balloon
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Synopsis
In summer 1979, after two years of preparations and planning, the Strezlzyk and Wetzel families want to escape from the GDR in a self-built hot-air balloon. The Strelzyk family goes first, but has to make an emergency landing before they get to cross the border. The damaged balloon gets carried away by the wind. While the family can make if back home safely, both, the Strelzyks as well as the Wetzels know it won't be long before the Stasi are onto them. Feverishly, they start building a new, more stable balloon to undertake another attempt to escape.
Cast
- Friedrich Mücke
- Karoline Schuch
- David Kross
- Alicia von Rittberg
- Thomas Kretschmann
- Jonas Holdenrieder
- Tilman Döbler
- Christian Näthe
- Till Patz
- Ben Teichmann
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Metacritic
Feb 25, 2020
Balloon is decent entertainment to a degree, and that is mostly thanks to its handsome production values.
Tomris Laffly
Variety
Feb 20, 2020
Balloon simply doesn't feature the sort of cinematic thrills necessary to keep us fully invested in the travails of its central characters. It's not that the events are depicted in anything less than bombastic, hyperbolic fashion. It's more that the filmmaker lacks the directorial finesse to calibrate the suspense for maximum cinematic effect.
Frank Scheck
The Hollywood Reporter
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