Whity(Movie, 1971)

Name: Whity
Genre: Western, Drama
Released: 1971
Duration: T01:35:00
Rating: 2.6

1h 35min | Genres: Western, Drama

Rating: 2.6/5 (with 7 votes)

Whity is a 1971 West German film, written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Günther Kaufmann and Hanna Schygulla. Shot in Spain, it is a melodrama in the form of a Spaghetti Western which addresses some of Fassbinder's recurrent themes such as dysfunctional families, sexual diversity and the struggle of the individual to find a place in society. Though entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival, it was never distributed theatrically and only much later achieved a DVD release. ()

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"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank, and the retarded Davy. Whity tries to carry out all their orders, however demeaning, until various of the family members ask him to kill some of the others.

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Additional Information

Production country: Germany

Made by: Antiteater-X-Film, Atlantis Film

Original language: German (DE)

Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN)

Translated into 8 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 06/02/1971

Cast: Ron Randell, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Ulli Lommel, Günther Kaufmann, Harry Baer, Helga Ballhaus, Kurt Raab, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Berling, Tomás Martín Blanco

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Producer: Peter Berling, Peer Raben, Ulli Lommel

Screenwriter: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Film Editor: Thea Eymèsz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director of Photography: Michael Ballhaus

Composer: Peer Raben

Keywords: southwestern u.s., butler, dysfunctional family, male homosexuality, 19th century, whipping

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Whity(Movie, 1971)

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