Balloon
Michael Herbig
Balloon [videorecording]= Michael Herbig - 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 in.
Summer 1979, East Germany during the height of the Cold War. Two ordinary families yearning for freedom secretly from a great escape plan to get across to the West.
With courage and ingenuity as their main weapons, they build a hot air balloon with small pieces of cloth for their eighty family members to fly over the Iron Curtain. But an initial failure puts their entire plan in jeopardy, setting off a dangerous race against time for a second attempt, with the State Police now hot on their heels... An incredible and gripping true story of resistance.
DVD video; Dolby Digital 5.1; surround, stereo, monaural; PAL, Regions 2; 16:9 widescreen.
Language audio with language subtitles.
PN1997 / B355 2018
Balloon [videorecording]= Michael Herbig - 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 in.
Summer 1979, East Germany during the height of the Cold War. Two ordinary families yearning for freedom secretly from a great escape plan to get across to the West.
With courage and ingenuity as their main weapons, they build a hot air balloon with small pieces of cloth for their eighty family members to fly over the Iron Curtain. But an initial failure puts their entire plan in jeopardy, setting off a dangerous race against time for a second attempt, with the State Police now hot on their heels... An incredible and gripping true story of resistance.
DVD video; Dolby Digital 5.1; surround, stereo, monaural; PAL, Regions 2; 16:9 widescreen.
Language audio with language subtitles.
PN1997 / B355 2018