Whity (1971) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1971 · 95 mins · German

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Starring

Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ulli Lommel, Günther Kaufmann, Harry Baer

Whity, a mixed‑race butler, serves the troubled Nicholson family on a 1878 frontier ranch in the American Southwest. Patriarch Ben Nicholson lives with his attractive young wife Katherine and two sons from a previous marriage—Frank, who is gay, and Davy, who has a mental disability. Whity dutifully obeys their often humiliating orders, until the relatives begin demanding he murder one another, plunging the household into betrayal and violence.