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PUBLISHED
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2020
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (125 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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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 West German 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 a new escape balloon. The Stasi get closer and closer each day – a nerve-racking battle against the clock begins…
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David Kross, Friedrich Mücke, Karoline Schuch
Originally produced by Distrib Films in 2018
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English