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Balloon
Ballon
2018 · Film · 125 min
Directed by Michael Herbig
Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.
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They have the 2018 movie free to watch on Fandango At Home, which doesn't even require you to login to watch it: https://athome.fandango.com/content/browse/details/Balloon/1320363
Disney made a movie about this called Night Crossing in the early 1980s. More recently, there's a 2018 German movie about it called Balloon.
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082810/
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7125774
Balloon (2018) is really well done. Even though I had already seen the old Disney movie, Night Crossing (1982), the new movie was still suspenseful.
This has been the basis for a quite well done movie, "Balloon" (2018) [0]. I highly recommend it. I think it paints a pretty good picture of how everyday life as affected by the STASI.
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7125774/
If you try to leave the US, no US official will stop you. If you tried to leave the DDR, you got shot. Or mauled by dogs. Or blown up by the minefield.
Watch the movie balloon to get a feeling how it was to live there. Not the same, at all.