The award-winning film by Michael Bully Herbig is the opening film of the German Film Festival in Australia. After Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, the German community in Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane can now look forward to this drama next week.
About 40 years after the spectacular escape, Professor Michael Rosemann - the German honorary consul in Brisbane - meets Guenter Wetzel Germany. Guenter Wetzel sewed the 28 meter high and 20 meter wide balloon hidden from the eyes of the Stasi. What he thinks today about the sensational escape from the GDR, he tells Michael Rosemann in an interview. Katharina Loesche reports for SBS.
Familie Wetzel vor der Flucht Source: K.Loesche
Günter Wetzel (l) mit Honorarkonsul Professor Michael Rosemann Source: K.Loesche
