Black Gravel
- Year: 1961
- Country of origin: West Germany
- Genre: Drama
- Director: Helmut Käutner
- Length: 113 min
Film Synopsis
Black Gravel (1961) follows a truck driver in a small West German village built up around a U.S. Air Force base, who exploits the postwar boom by illegally selling gravel on the black market and rekindles a fraught romance with a former lover now married to an American officer. As their clandestine liaison deepens amid a backdrop of economic desperation, vice, and competing moral codes, a tragic accident and ensuing cover‑up tighten the atmosphere of suspicion and consequence. This German crime drama blends bleak postwar realism and noir‑tinged tension in a stark portrayal of survival and disillusionment.
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Edition and Packaging Notes
- Radiance’s Blu-ray is included in the “World Noir, Vol. 2” box set with Symphony for a Massacre (1963) and Cruel Gun Story (1964). It includes an 80-page booklet.
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