Night Crossing

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1. #001

   The real-life Night Crossing lasted only twenty-eight minutes.

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2. #002

   The film was released three years after the real-life events in which two families escaped from East Germany to West Germany by hot air balloon.

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3. #003

   The real Peter Strelzyk died on 11 March 2017, only forty-five days after John Hurt.

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4. #004

   At the time of the film's release, the hot air balloon actually used in the night crossing was kept in an "Escape Museum" inside Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin, Germany.

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5. #005

   The date of the night crossing was 15 September 1979.

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6. #006

   The flight path of the night crossing ran from Thüringen Poessneck to Naila, Bavaria, near Hof.

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7. #007

   In the film the flight path of the night crossing went from east to west, but in real life the night crossing did not go in that direction; it went due south.

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8. #008

   The freezing conditions in the Bavarian Mountains created various problems for the production. Compressed steam was used to burn ice off the snow fields. Snow was also swept from icy roads. In addition, trees had to be painted green to reflect the seasonal September look.

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9. #009

   The film is set between April 1978 and September 1979.

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10. #010

    The beginning of the film features archive footage of Conrad Schumann leaping over barbed wire in Berlin.

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11. #011

    The film's promotion stated that the night crossing was the most daring escape since that of The Wooden Horse (1950) during the Second World War.

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12. #012

    At maximum inflation the hot air balloon stood one hundred and fourteen feet (thirty-five metres) high.

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13. #013

    It was Kay Walsh's last film.

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14. #014

    The production built its own replica of the Inner German Border. The "death strip" was sixteen feet (five metres) high and half a mile (eight hundred metres) long.

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15. #015

    Some posters carried the following long opening text: "The East German border: 836 miles of barbed wire walls, automatic machine guns, armed guards and deadly land mines. On 15 September 1979 two families tried to cross the border. Night Crossing. A true story."

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16. #016

    Seven hot air balloons were used by the film's production team.

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17. #017

    The production shoot lasted fourteen weeks.

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18. #018

    The cast includes three Oscar nominees: John Hurt, Jane Alexander and Ian Bannen.

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19. #019

    While working on this Disney production, John Hurt was asked to voice the Horned King for The Black Cauldron (1985).

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20. #020

    Night Crossing is the 113th live-action film produced by Disney.

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21. #021

    The vehicle license plates used East German numbering, but were stamped from West German DIN standard blanks with West German plate spacing. The plates were only produced for a short time after German reunification, which resulted in an unintentional historical inaccuracy.

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22. #022

    Sky du Mont's character is named "Ziegler," the same name as his character in Sydney Pollack's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), where du Mont played Sandor Szavost.

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