Black Gravel Blu-Ray

Sohn is a town built on sin for the occupying American forces in post-war Germany. Robert, a local truck driver who sells gravel from the place where he works as a side job, runs into an old flame, Inge, who is now respectably married to American officer John. When the couple drives in Robert's truck, tragedy strikes and they are forced to hide a terrible secret... Black Gravel by Helmut Käutner was criticized when it was released in Germany for its outspoken portrayal of anti-Semitism and its brutal depiction of a country on its knees after the war. Now, after being restored, it has gained an established status as an important and powerful work of European noir. EXTRA: SPECIAL FEATURES

 

2K restoration by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

 

 

Original uncompressed mono PCM audio.

 

 

Includes both the uncensored original version (114 minutes) and the re-edited distribution version (113 minutes) with an alternative ending.

Audio commentary with film historian Olaf Möller (2020)

 

 

New interview with writer and programmer Margaret Deriaz (2024, 19 minutes)

 

 

Newsreel from the filming with behind-the-scenes footage and an interview with Käutner (1960, 4 minutes)

 

 

Trailer

 

 

Optional English subtitles