Wim Wenders asks: Should movies be re-edited post-release?
Key takeaways
- Actress Nastassja Kinski wants Wim Wenders to remove a sexualized scene from his film "The Wrong Move," in which she appeared topless at the age of 13.
- 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.
- "Although I didn't know much at the age of 13, I could already tell that it wasn't right," Kinski recently told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
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Actress Nastassja Kinski wants Wim Wenders to remove 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 German actress Nastassja Kinski has been trying for years to get filmmaker Wim Wenders to remove a scene from one of his lesser-known films, "Falsche Bewegung" ("The Wrong Move"), from 1975.
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.