Beware of a Holy Whore (Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte) is a 1971 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla and Fassbinder himself.
The story is about a particularly chaotic and ill-fated film shoot, influenced by the shooting of Fassbinder's period piece Whity that very same year.
Tropes Found in This Work Include:
- Drop Dead Gorgeous: Invoked when an actress suggests that she should be nude in her death scene. Subverted when the finished scene is shown and we see that she performed the scene clothed after all.
- Dysfunction Junction: The set is chaotic indeed, with much drinking and affairs between cast/crew members of varying genders.
- Horrible Hollywood: Though it takes place in Spain, it is about a particularly hellish film shoot, with a demanding director and drunken crewmembers.
- Making the Masterpiece: It's a film about the making of a film, written and directed by a filmmaker.
