Weird film by Fassbinder.
For starters, its a western-ish film which in itself already is a uncommon thing for a Fassbinder film considering this is the only one western he has ever done in his 40+ films filmography; and not quite a western too, it's like a western bertold brecht play adaptation. I name drop Bertolt Brecht not only because i know for a fact that Fassbinder was influenced by him but also because i see in the characters unnatural poses an echo of his epic theatre, not to mention the use of black face on the already black actress and the white face on the already white actors that makes the racial conflict seem, at the same time, a farce and even more present than it would've already been otherwise.
I think that there are some really important things being shown here concerning whity's parents being a white father( a free slave owner) and her mother being black ( a slave) and how the fact that his white parent didn't change much in the way he is perceived as he continues to be a slave but changed the way that he sees white people, seeing them with more respect than his mother,for example sees them
It was a good film and Hanna Schygulla was great in this as usual. It does, however look very much dated and the soundtrack seems never to quite fit in with the scene's climate.