The Red Jacket
2002, German. Directed by Florian Baxmeyer.
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.
- Runtime
- 0h 20m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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- Released
- 1 May 2002
- Original title
- Die rote Jacke
- Country
- Germany
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The Red Jacket isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 May 2002. (Checked 2 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Red Jacket?
The Red Jacket (2002) was directed by Florian Baxmeyer and stars Ulrich Noethen, Catrin Striebeck, Tetje Mierendorf.