Black Gravel

Black Gravel original title Schwarzer Kies is a German film from 1961. The screenplay was written by director Helmut Kutner and Walter Ulbrich. The film was shot in Lautzenhausen, Germany.

Kutner attempted to show postwar Germany as it was, gritty, smarting from defeat, still encumbered by antisemitism, despite the denazification efforts. However, the Central Council of Jews in Germany protested against the film and filed a criminal complaint, labeling the portrayal of antisemitism as the expression of it and citing the treatment of a character Loeb who is a Nazi concentration camp survivor and who is called a dirty Jew by der alte Rssler old man Rssler. Though the director and producer said the Council misunderstood their intent, and the general secretary of the Council said he found the movie much more antiGerman than antiJewish, all the scenes with Jewish references were cut from the film.In an issue of Der Spiegel published at the time the movie was released, an article called Slice of Life Eine Scheibe Leben, begins with the scene in question. ........

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