Balloon


Michael Bully Herbig's  Balloon chronicles a family of four fleeing East Germany in 1979 using said conveyance. The prologue was so ham-fisted, a man gunned down attempting to vault the border wall is cross cut with children singing a paean to socialism, it had me rooting for the commies. Things did not improve. An overbearingly boring film and I write this as one fascinated by its subject. The production design and costumes are nice, but only Thomas Kretschmann as a Stasi agent emanates a life force. 

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