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Black Gravel (German: Schwarzer Kies) is a 1961 West German drama film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Ingmar Zeisberg and Anita Höfer. The screenplay was written by Käutner and Walter Ulbrich. The film was shot in Lautzenhausen, Germany. The film's sets were designed by the art director.
Original title: Schwarzer Kies. 1961. 1h 53m. IMDb RATING. 7.4 /10. 267. YOUR RATING. Rate. Drama. The story takes place in postwar Germany, following Germany's loss in World War II. For years, people struggled with shortages of everything, housing, water, food, clothing. Director. Helmut Käutner. Writers. Helmut Käutner. Walter Ulbrich. Stars.
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Schwarzer Kies ist ein deutsches Filmdrama des Regisseurs Helmut Käutner. Der Schwarzweißfilm wurde am 13. April 1961 im EM-Theater in Stuttgart uraufgeführt.
A film without heroes or obvious villains, Schwarzer Kies is set in a small town of a few hundred inhabitants in post-World War II West Germany, in which a military base for several thouand US soldiers is built, turning it into a hotbed for nightclubs, prostitution, and black market peddlers.
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- Helmut Käutner
Schwarzer Kies (1961) Helmut Käutner, Helmut Wildt, Ingmar Zeisberg, Hans Cossy | RareFilm. October 6, 2018. In 1960, in a rural part of West Germany, an American military base is set up in a small village of 250 inhabitants. Now, 6000 soldiers are living in the region, and although no one really likes them, everybody is doing business with them.
Gravel takes on new meaning in Helmut Käutner’s Schwarzer Kies (US: Black Gravel), its use for re-building roads and infrastructure after the war taking a backseat to its use for burying evidence of rampant degradation and evil acts.
The underrecognized Kautner’s best-known film is this rugged, paranoiac noir set in the West German village of Sohnen around the site of an American airbase in progress.
