Wim Wenders withdraws film with disputed child nude scene
Key takeaways
- Actress Nastassja Kinski spent years calling for the removal of a sexualized scene from his film "The Wrong Move," in which she appeared topless at the age of 13.
- German actress Nastassja Kinski has been trying for years to get filmmaker Wim Wenders to remove a scene from the movie.
- "Although I didn't know much at the age of 13, I could already tell that it wasn't right," Kinski recently told the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
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Actress Nastassja Kinski spent years calling for the removal of a sexualized scene from his film "The Wrong Move," in which she appeared topless at the age of 13.
https://p.dw.com/p/5Eiv9Wim Wenders received the Honorary Prize for Lifetime Achievement at the German Film Awards Image: Eventpress Fuhr/Eventpress/IMAGOAdvertisement The Wim Wenders Foundation has announced on Wednesday that the 1975 film "Falsche Bewegung" ("The Wrong Move"), at the center of a headline-grabbing dispute between the German filmmaker and actress Nastassja Kinski, is being withdrawn from circulation for the time being.
German actress Nastassja Kinski has been trying for years to get filmmaker Wim Wenders to remove a scene from the movie. In the brief scene, her co-star Rüdiger Vogler (then over 30 years old) visits the 13-year-old in her bedroom, where she is lying on a bed wearing only panties. The man undresses down to his underwear and lies on top of her; he slaps her and then caresses her face.