# Balloon (2018)

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**Original title**: *Ballon*
**Runtime**: 125 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Drama, History
**Directed by**: Michael Herbig
**Written by**: Michael Herbig, Kit Hopkins, Thilo Röscheisen
**Starring**: Karoline Schuch, Friedrich Mücke, Alicia von Rittberg, David Kross, Jonas Holdenrieder, Tilman Döbler

> *One of the most daring escapes of the Cold War.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

East Berlin, 1979. A child drops a toy rubber duck in a puddle. Two families stitch bedsheets into a hot-air balloon.

Stasi agents spot a scrap of fabric near the border fence. The families build a second balloon while the room fills with smoke from the burner.

A director’s relic of real tension, snug in its classically framed dread.

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