Filme von Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Whity

1878, somewhere out West in the United States. The Nicholson family resides in a mansion that resembles a mausoleum. The estate owner Ben Nicholson (Ron Randell), and his second wife Katherine (Katrin Schaake) with her nymphomaniac inclinations live with the two sons from her first marriage, the homosexual Frank (Ulli Lommel) and the mentally disturbed Davy (Harry Baer). Whity (Günther Kaufmann) is the Nicholson’s obsequious servant and also Ben’s illegitimate son. The black man only gains self-confidence after numerous family members ask him to kill other members of the family. Whity executes the verdict the Nicholsons have long pronounced about themselves.

Weltvertrieb
R.W.F. Werkschau

Verleih (D)
Basis-Film

Produktionsjahr
1970
Regie
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Buch
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Kamera
Michael Ballhaus
Musik
Peer Raben
Schnitt
Franz Walsch, Thea Eymèsz
Ausstattung
Kurt Raab
Besetzung
Günther Kaufmann (Whity) Hanna Schygulla (Hanna) Ulli Lommel (Frank) Harry Baer (Davy) Katrin Schaake (Katherine) Ron Randell (Ben Nicholson) Thomas Blanco (fraudulent Mexican doctor) Stefano Capriati (Judge) Elaine Baker (Whity's mother) Mark Salvage (Sheriff) Helga Ballhaus (judge's wife) Kurt Raab (pianist) Rainer Werner Fassbinder (client in the saloon) Peter Berling (saloonkeeper)
Produktion
Atlantis Film / antiteater-X-Film
Format
35 mm, Cinemascope, Color, 95 min.