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Black Gravel [Blu-ray]

Helmut Wildt (Actor), Robert Neidhardt (Actor) Rated:
NR
Format: Blu-ray
4.2 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
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Genre Drama
Format NTSC, Anamorphic, Subtitled
Contributor Ingmar Zeisberg, Robert Neidhardt, Helmut Wildt
Language German
Runtime 1 hour and 54 minutes
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Kino Lorber Classics

The classic arm of Kino Lorber offers many of the greatest films from the past, both silent and sound, for the discriminating viewer, from historical silents through the French new wave.

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In this gripping Cold War noir, tensions simmer between residents of a small German village and the soldiers of a U.S. military base. Postwar economic hardship has turned the town of Sohnen into a vice district. The women serve as entertainment for the GIs, while the men struggle for survival in the black market. Helmed by Helmut Käutner (Port of Freedom), Black Gravel is hardboiled cinema at its most cynical, recalling such white-knuckle thrillers as Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear and Jules Dassin and A.I. Bezzerides’s Thieves’ Highway. Upon its initial release, Black Gravel was criticized for its honest depiction of lingering antisemitism—and the film was re-edited for general release. This Kino Classics edition presents both the uncensored “Premiere” cut and the revised “Distribution” version, both meticulously restored by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.

Special Features:
-Includes both the uncensored "Premiere" version and the re-edited "Distribution" version of the film
-Audio commentary by film historian Olaf Möller

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.59 ounces
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Anamorphic, Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 54 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ September 1, 2020
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Helmut Wildt, Robert Neidhardt, Ingmar Zeisberg
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Kino Classics
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08CJQ415F
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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  • Ralph C. Mipro
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2024
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  • JJ
    5.0 out of 5 stars This film is definitely worth watching, especially for Noir film buffs.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2024
    I found this movie completely by chance.
    It was playing on TCM on TV and happened to be in German.
    Being a student of German I thought it would be good listening practice.
    Well, it turned out to be way better than that.
    If you like old black & white films, especially ones that involve drama, then you'll enjoy this film.
    It's a very realistic portrayal of how war changes people psychologically.
    We are looking through a window of time at the day to day life of a small village in post-war Germany.
    Things haven't improved much now that the war has ended, in fact, people are just as desperate as ever.
    The story revolves around one man's struggle to stay ahead of life and the law when he accidentally kills two people, but then decides to cover up the accident and their bodies along with it.
    You'll find just about everything in this movie: affairs, alcoholism, fascism & anti-Semitism, and a killing which turns into murder, just to name a few.
    The actors, all German, did an excellent job of portraying American soldiers & Air Force officers and this movie turned out to be a good foreign language film.
    It's worth watching, especially if you're into the 40's style Noir films.
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  • Michael Gebert
    4.0 out of 5 stars Strong, bleak German noir set around a Cold War air base
    Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2021
    In theory this later Helmut Käutner film has a similar setting to his postwar hit Port of Freedom—a sleepy burg which has filled up with honky tonks and prostitutes given the arrival of a US air base—but in tone it couldn't be more different. This is noir, a German version of The Phenix City Story.

    Helmut Wildt is a truck driver and, like most of the residents in Söhnen, an operator; he's involved with a profiteering scam involving the black gravel used to pave tarmacs around the base. He's involved with one of the prostitutes at the local bar (the Ann-Margret-esque Anita Höfer), but an arrival changes his mind—it's the German wife (ingmar Zeisberg) of an American officer and engineer, with whom he was involved in black market days right after the war. Through their rekindled relationship we get a vivid picture of the society of schemers and horndogs and Cold War politics, cynical and corrupt and ripe for how it will unravel when there's an accident and the evidence is buried under black gravel.

    It's interesting that it's a noir where the crime is the coverup, in a place where a lot of things are covered up, and the crime itself is not so sinister, except in its inconvenience to everybody's sweet racket; what it lacks in thriller suspense it more than makes up in the panoramic vision of a dirty little world, a fascinating picture of a time and place we all knew existed (GIs in postwar Germany) but have never seen in anything approaching this level of sociological detail.

    There are two versions of the film on the disc—one scene, which includes an antisemitic slur blurted out by a clueless character who lived through the war, was cut, and the bleak ending softened, for general release; this edition has both the original version and the edited one. The restoration has some minor visual flaws in spots which barely detract form the excellent, crisp black and white photography. There's also a commentary track by Olaf Möller.
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