Beau Bridges credited as playing...
Günter Wetzel
- Günter Wetzel: People have always laughed at the great ideas.
- Doris Strelzyk: You want us to climb into a balloon and float away to West Germany?
- Petra Wetzel: Come on. It isn't funny to make jokes about going to the West.
- Doris Strelzyk: They're not joking.
- Günter Wetzel: I'm not gonna be a delivery boy all my life. I'm a mechanic. Damn good one and I've got a right to prove it.
- Petra Wetzel: There are other ways. Helicopters fly people out of Czechoslovakia.
- Günter Wetzel: [laughs] How are we gonna get into Czechoslovakia? Sneak across that border with two little children? And even if we did, we don't have the money. They're charging ten, twelve thousand a ride.
- Petra Wetzel: You really think we can do it?
- Günter Wetzel: I know we can. We have to. The police are gonna find the Strelzyks and when they do, we're locked into it.
- Günter Wetzel: [At his wife's behest, Gunter is backing out of the first balloon flight] I'm sorry.
- Peter Strelzyk: I'll move the equipment from your work room.
- Günter Wetzel: When you can.
- Peter Strelzyk: The less we're seen together, the better. Because when we're gone, they'll question you, and the only way you'll be safe is if you can honestly say "I don't know".
- Günter Wetzel: [referring to the second balloon] Have you started building it yet?
- Peter Strelzyk: No. Waiting to see how big I should make it.
- Günter Wetzel: Better make it for eight.
- Günter Wetzel: There was a rumor. A balloon was found at the border near Lobenstein.
- Peter Strelzyk: We were so close. Literally a few hundred feet. I'm building another one because the SSD is looking for us and we have to get out. I wish you'd come with us.
- Günter Wetzel: The balloon, it really worked?
- Peter Strelzyk: [chuckles] Gunter, you should have seen it. It was beautiful. And with you along, I know, *I know* we could make it.
- Peter Strelzyk: [examining cloth at a store] Oh, yes, yes, we'll take that.
- 1st Store Clerk: How much do you need?
- Peter Strelzyk: Uh, 1,250 square yards.
- 1st Store Clerk: [nonplussed] Gentlemen, if this is your idea of a joke ...
- Peter Strelzyk: [laughs] No, I know it sounds like a lot, but we run a camping club and we need it to line the tents with.
- 1st Store Clerk: 1,250 square yards? It must be a very large club!
- Günter Wetzel: It is, with big tents.
- 1st Store Clerk: Well, I don't have it all, but I'll give you what I have.