Night Crossing
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Night Crossing is a Disney film that was made in 1981 starring John Hurt and Beau Bridges.
The film is based on the true story of the Strelzyk and Wetzel families, who on September 16, 1979 escaped (illegally emigrated) from East Germany to West Germany in a homemade hot-air balloon. This was in the days of the Berlin Wall when any such travel was strictly prohibited by the East German government.
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- The German title translates as "With the Wind to the West".
- The families' actual flight path, from Poessneck in Thuringia to Naila, near Hof in Bavaria, did not take them west geographically, but almost due south.
- The license plates on the cars in the movie used the correct East German numbering system but were pressed on West German blanks using West German DIN-standard dies. Such plates were issued briefly, but not until after German reunification, thus creating an unintended and ironic anachronism.
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