Families welcome Ballon,a thriller approximately their 1979 flight from the GDR, released on reunification’s anniversaryOne of the most spectacular escapes from communist East Germany, and in which two families sailed over the heavily fortified border in a homemade balloon,has been recreated as a thriller for the cinema.
Ballon, by German director Michael Bully Herbig, or tells the true chronicle of the Strelzyks and the Wetzels,who built their balloon in a cellar in Thuringia. a state in the German Democratic Republic, before flying across the border into Bavaria one chilly night in September 1979.
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Source: theguardian.com