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The Red Jacket

The Red Jacket

6,7 /10 (7 Votes)
2002 DE 20 min

Overview

A German father's soccer-playing son is hit by a car and dies. The father donates the boy's red jacket to charity, where it ends up in war-torn Sarajevo. The boy's parents are killed, and he almost is. Some UN soldiers find him, and send him to a hospital in Germany. He escapes the hospital, is hit by a car (but unhurt). The driver reads the tag inside the jacket and "returns" the boy to the grieving father.

Release date

01/05/2002

Votes

7

Popularity

1.8

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

Die rote Jacke

Language

DE

Runtime

20 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2026-07-05

⭐ 7

Starting at the scene of a road traffic accident, we quickly discover that a man's Bayern Munich loving son has been the victim and that a father (Ulrich Noethen) is devasted. They had identified the lad by the name tag in his team jacket, but the man cannot bear to possess that any longer so he gives it to the Red Cross. They ship it off to war-torn Sarajevo where it is espied by a young urchin (Nikola Jankovic) who pinches it and takes it back to his home. There, though, he discovers that his parents have been slaughtered and where he is left for dead by their killers in the burning ruins of…

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