About the movie: year - 2018 / 2 hours drama / thriller / historical / The plot of the movie "Balloon": Action The movie takes place in the summer 1979 in East Germany. Two families from Thuringia come up with a crazy plan to escape from the GDR to West Germany in a hot air balloon. After several weeks of hard work, the heroes try to fly for the first time. Their balloon crashes a few meters from the German border due to rain. Fortunately, all the crew members manage to survive and avoid arrest, but the wreckage of the balloon is discovered. While the authorities hunt down the intruders, the heroes hurriedly and in constant fear of detection create a new ball that should be more powerful than the previous one..