Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte (Beware of a Holy Whore) M
When
7.45 pm, Wed 15 Nov 2017 (103 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
About
It's a film about brutality. What else would one make a movie about? – Jeff in Beware of a Holy Whore
Only months after shooting Whity, Fassbinder made Beware of a Holy Whore, a satire exploring the simmering tensions between the cast and crew of a stalled film production. Holed up in a Spanish resort, the group play out a series of psychosexual games while awaiting the arrival of their abusive, egomaniacal director. A thinly fictionalised account of the on-set tyranny and dysfunction during the production of Whity, Beware of a Holy Whore is both a scathing self-portrait and a farcical metafilm, with some actors playing themselves (Hanna Schygulla, Alphaville's Eddie Constantine) and others functioning as stand-ins (Magdalena Montezuma in a red wig as Irm Hermann, Lou Castel as the leather-jacketed Fassbinder figure). For Fassbinder, Beware of a Holy Whore was a personal and technical breakthrough and marked the end of his avant-garde period. "With that film, we buried the Antitheatre, which was our first dream," he said. He would later come to consider it his best picture.
M | Coarse language, nudity and sexual references
Production Credits
- Director/Script: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus
- Cast: Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Margarethe Von Trotta, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Editors: Thea Eymèsz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (as Franz Walsch)
- Production Designer: Kurt Raab
- Music: Peer Raben
- Production Company: Antiteater X-Film, Munich
- Print Source / Rights: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation
- Year: 1970
- Runtime: 103 minutes
- Countries: West Germany, Italy
- Languages: German, English, French, Spanish
- Subtitles: English
- Sound: Mono
- Colour: Colour, Eastmancolor
- Screening Format: 35mm Transferred to DCP, 1.85:1