The Red Jacket
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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.
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Cast
15 people
Ulrich Noethen
Vater
Known for
Downfall
Furia
Catrin Striebeck
Autofahrerin
Known for
Head-On
You Are Wanted
Florian Baxmeyer
Kai Lichtenauer
UN - Sanitäter 2
Elke Schuch
Nikola Jankovic
Nikola
Tetje Mierendorf
DRK-Helfer
Also in
Kein Sex ist auch keine Lösung
Mein großer dicker peinlicher Verlobter
Philipp Hochmair
UN - Sanitäter 1
Known for
Freud
Deutschland
Nikola Janković
Nikola
Also in
ANIMA
Grand Prix
Oliver Masucci
Bayerischer Soldat
Known for
Dark
Look Who's Back
Matthias Klimsa
UN Soldat - Bibo
Constance Domdey
Polizistin
Florian Baxmeyer Director
First release May 1, 2002 · Produced in Germany · Languages German, Serbo-Croatian
Production
Hamburger Filmwerkstätten e.V.
Production · Distribution
Germany
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Die rote Jacke
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German · Serbo-Croatian
Release dates
Germany · May 1, 2002
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Denmark
August 11, 2003 · Odense International Film Festival
Finland
March 1, 2003 · Tampere International Short Film Festival
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