Red Bracelets: The Beginning

Six teenagers cannot lead a normal life like their friends: instead of playing football, meeting up with friends, going to school or spending time with their families, they are stuck in the hospital for a long time.

Although they suffer from different diseases, the members of the “Red Bracelets” share a common wish: to spend their youth as normally as possible. Leo, Jonas, Emma, Alex, Toni and Hugo all learn about the value of friendship in this dire and extraordinary situation and the change from joy to sorrow on a daily basis creates a unique bond between them. While experiencing life and death, their first great love and going on nightly expeditions through the hospital, they form the “Red Bracelets” and patients with different fates and personalities eventually become best friends. 

Director: Felix Binder

Producers: Jan kromschroder, Gerda Muller, Frauke Neeb

Screenwriters: Arne Nolting, Jan Martin Scharf, Albert Espinosa

Cast: Tom Oliver Shlutz, Damian Hardung, Luise Befort, Ivo Kortlang, Timur Bartels, Nick Julius Schuck, Jurgen Vogel

Cinematographer: Thomas Schinz

Editor: Anne Kathrein Thiele