This is a 2002 short film that runs for approximately 20 minutes without credits. A young boy is fan of the soccer team Bayern Munich. He has a tragic accident and dies. His father gets rid off the son's jacker and it ends up abroad with some help organization. Another boy gets the jacket and ends up (as unlikely as it sounds) with the dead boy's father. Maybe one coincidence too many, but still a decent short film. Ulrich Noethen is good as always and I personally was surprised to see Tetje Mierendorf in here, even if it is only for one scene. I only knew him as a comedian so far. This short film is an early directorial effort by German filmmaker Florian Baxmeyer, not his first though. He managed to build a career on the success of his work here and is one of Germany's most prolific television directors currently, with quite a few movies and also many "Tatort" episodes. He has not written a single one of his movies himself though and same goes for this short movie. The script is by Elke Schuch who also worked on several projects in the last 13 years, not as many as Baxmeyer however. All in all, "Die rote Jacke" is a good short movie. I am not sure if I would say it is one of the year's best or if the Oscar nomination is deserved, but it's worth a watch I guess.
Review of Die rote Jacke
