Virtual Screening: Balloon
When:
Friday, Apr 17, 2020 7:00p -
Thursday, Apr 23, 2020 11:30p
Where:
The Coolidge Corner Theatre (online!)
290 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA 02446
Admission:
$12
Categories:
Film, Virtual & Streaming
Event website:
https://coolidge.org/films/balloon
Through our Virtual Screening Room, you can rent films curated by the Coolidge team, while helping to support the Coolidge during this unprecedented time.
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 immediately launches 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...
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 immediately launches 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...