Truck driver Robert steals road gravel from a US Air Force base in Germany and sells it on the black market. He has a chance run-in with an old flame, but unfortunately she is now married to an Air Force Major. Their lives become intertwined.
I found the story a little hard to follow at first. It was recently restored and the subtitles were sharp, but I felt I was missing a lot of nuance. Soon enough, though, I was fully immersed in the drama. The story winds in a somewhat nonlinear fashion, involving a few other characters, but eventually everything comes together, and not in a Hollywood ending sort of way.
Black Gravel was the first German noir to appear on TCM’s Noir Alley and I was fortunate enough to have recorded its first airing last January. The German title is Schwarzer Kies and I was a little iffy on it before watching. But Eddie Muller called it a masterpiece. Now that I’ve seen it, I tend to agree. AMRU 4.
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