Whity

IMDb link: 0067979
IMDb rating: 6.4 (1,258 votes)
Genres: Drama, Western
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Ron Randell, Hanna Schygulla, Gunther Kaufmann, Katrin Schaake and others

Release date: 2 Jun 1971
Release year: 1971
Runtime: 95 minutes
Country: West Germany
Keywords: homosexual, man slapped multiple times, female slaps a male, mulatto, butler, racism, nymphomaniac, evil family, bar singer, harassment

Plot:

Whity is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the south-west U.S. in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife, Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank and the disabled 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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