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Whity

Whity

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 2, 1971

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Western, Drama

User Score

52%

Original Title

Whity

Production Companies

Atlantis-Film, Antiteater-X-Film

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Description

"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.