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Whity

1971 · 1h 35m Drama, Western
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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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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Fassbinder's provocative 1970 meditation on race and class.

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