Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)

Directors

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast

Benjamin Lev, Eddie Constantine, Enzo Monteduro, Franco Iavarone, Hanna Schygulla, Harry Baer, Herb Andress, Ingrid Caven, Irm Hermann, Karl Scheydt, Katrin Schaake, Kurt Raab, Lou Castel, Magdalena Montezuma, Manfred Seipold, Marcella Michelangeli, Margarethe von Trotta, Mario Novelli, Marquard Bohm, Michael Fengler, Peter Berling, Peter Gauhe, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Ulli Lommel, Volker Lechtenbrink, Werner Schroeter

The story

Beware of a Holy Whore opens with a soliloquy (delivered by Werner Schroeter) about the synopsis of a Disney story featuring Goofy, the dog. Goofy cross-dresses in his aunt's clothes to teach a kindergarten class and, after being ridiculed by the class, takes a "poor orphan girl" into his home. The little girl is actually a dwarf gangster, Wee Willy, and he fools Goofy into caring for him by wearing the clothes that Goofy discarded after being ridiculed by the school children.

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