What are the scary details in Balloon?

The film Balloon tells the story of Gunter (david kross david kross) and Peter (Friedrich Mücke Friedrich Mücke) in East Germany at the height of the Cold War in 1979. In order to pursue freedom, they spent more than two years planning a "shocking escape":

With limited resources, they made a huge hot air balloon and planned to use it to carry their families to escape to West Germany. Unexpectedly, just before crossing the border, the hot air balloon crashed unexpectedly, which led to an overwhelming investigation by the East German secret police.

Under the tight time and strict investigation, they desperately built a new hot air balloon, and the secret police gradually locked them in, and a desperate escape against time began …

The eldest son of the balloon family and the daughter of the secret police next door are actually German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel was born in Hamburg and lived in East Germany from 1954 to 1990.

1974, she and several classmates went to the Soviet Union to participate in youth exchange activities, and went to Petrograd and Moscow to meet students from physics departments, one of whom was her first husband, ulrich Merkel. Two years later, they moved in together.

Like many college students in the GDR, they want to work in the same city, and more importantly, find a house, so Angela, who is still at school, married the physicist ulrich Merkel. Only when you get married can you get a house and find a job together, and the government will not be separated.

The wedding was held in the chapel in Angela's hometown of templin. Angela was given her husband's surname, and now she is on the list of world politicians. Yes 1977. She is only 23 years old. Four years later, the marriage broke up and they became strangers. Angela Merkel moved out of their home in Berlin almost overnight, which shocked ulrich Merkel. The couple officially divorced on 1982. Ten years later, Merkel remarried.