Schwarzer Kies

1961
1h 53min

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Añade un argumento en tu idiomaA West German trucker who illegally sells black gravel reunites with a former lover, now married to an American.A West German trucker who illegally sells black gravel reunites with a former lover, now married to an American.A West German trucker who illegally sells black gravel reunites with a former lover, now married to an American.

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Curiosidades
First German film shown on TCM's "Noir Alley" on 14 December 2024.

Pifias
Anni and Bill invite Bob into the back of their car to get out of the rain. BUT once in the car Bob's hair and jacket collar are dry, even though the rainfall on the rear window is quite obviously quite significant.

Versiones alternativas
Shortly after its general release, the film was changed from its premiere cut. Due to complaints by the Central Council of Jews in Germany, two scenes were shortened in which a character is revealed to be a Holocaust survivor and an antisemitic slur is used against him. The ending was also changed and is much less dark: in the shortened cut, both Inge and Robert survive. The premiere cut was restored during the film's digital restoration in 2016.

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8/10

A suspense-filled neo-noir that avoids all of the classic noir tropes.

In post-war Germany, in a dreary small town near a US air force base, some of the local truckers hired by the Americans to supply the base with gravel and other construction supplies have a side job in the black market. Trucker Robert, underplayed to anti-hero perfection by Helmut Wildt, lives in a room above a brothel-bar in town and has an emotionless relationship with one of the B-girls (Anita Hofer) who has a yen for him. One day he spots an old flame(Ingmar Zeisberg), now married to an American officer running the base, and attempts to relight their fire in secret, a decision that leads to a tragic accident. It's all downhill after that.

It's downbeat, but one of the most compelling dramas about post-war Europe I've ever seen. It was cut to remove an anti-Semitic outburst by a bar drunk but restored in 2009. The tech credits and all of the performers, from the main actors to the extras, are excellent. It hasn't been shown on Noir Alley--it should-- but Eddie has programmed it at several festivals. Directed and co-written by Helmut Kautner, it was not the kind of commercial film the West German studios were producing in the late 1950s and 1960s.