German filmmaker Wim Wenders has withdrawn his 1975 movie, “The Wrong Move,” due to a nude scene of Nastassja Kinski when she was 13 years old. Kinski, now 65, has requested Wenders to edit the film. Recently, she expressed to Sueddeutsche Zeitung, saying, “That was my first film, he was my first director and he didn’t protect me.”
Wenders, known for “Paris, Texas” and “Wings of Desire,” issued a statement offering an apology to Kinski. He acknowledged, “I recognize that Nastassja Kinski should have been better protected back then. For that, I apologize to you, Nastassja, unreservedly, no ifs and buts.”
“The Wrong Move” was Kinski’s film debut. She is the daughter of actor Klaus Kinski. The film features Rüdiger Vogler as an aspiring writer in Germany. Kinski plays a mute teen acrobat appearing topless in one scene. Wenders announced he is pulling the movie from all distribution channels including streaming services and TV broadcasts. His Wim Wenders Foundation owns the film.
Until a solution is found, the film will remain unavailable. Wenders aims for a “broad dialogue” involving Kinski, the German Film Academy, and other film organizations. Wenders emphasized society’s need for appropriate ways to handle controversial works. Representatives for Kinski did not respond to The Associated Press.
During the German Film Awards, Wenders spoke about the challenges of altering the film. He cautioned that editing it retrospectively “sets a precedent that affects you all, and then it becomes possible with all your films later on.”
After first appearing in “The Wrong Move,” Kinski co-starred in Wenders’ 1984 film “Paris, Texas” but remained uneasy about her initiation into film. By the age of 17, she had appeared nude in “To the Devil a Daughter” and “Stay As You Are.” In 1997, Kinski told W Magazine, “If I had had somebody to protect me or if I had felt more secure about myself, I would not have accepted certain things. Nudity things. And inside it was just tearing me apart.”
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