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The Red Jacket

Drama

The Red Jacket

6.7(7) 5/1/2002 0h 20m
Drama

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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Florian Baxmeyer

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CinemaSerf

7/10

7/5/2026

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 their booby-trapped house. Fortunately for him, an UN squad arrives and thanks to a kindly soldier who wants to help him out he is airlifted to hospital in Germany and awakens in a bed. First thing h

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