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Wim Wenders released a public statement this morning announcing that his foundation will be withdrawing his 1975 film “Wrong Move” from circulation because of a topless scene featuring Nastassja Kinski, who was 13 at the time of filming.
Wenders, a German director known for helming classics like “Paris, Texas,” “Wings of Desire” and the recent “Perfect Days,” said in a statement issued by the Wim Wenders Foundation on Instagram: “As the only person responsible at the time for ‘Wrong Move’ who is still here, I recognize that Nastassja Kinski should have been better protected back then. For that, I apologize to you, Natassja, unreservedly, no ifs and buts.”
In “Wrong Move,” Kinski played a mute teenager and starred alongside Rüdiger Vogler and Hans Christian Blech. In a comment underneath the post from Kinski’s unverified Instagram account, she wrote in part: “Wim, after all these years, only now the public has commented in so many newspapers, like colleagues, and now because thousands, although I asked so long ago.”
Kinski has been outspoken about the film for years, urging Wenders to issue a new cut. “That was my first film, he was my first director and he didn’t protect me,” she told the German outlet Sueddeutsche Zeitung last month.
“Wrong Move” marked Kinski’s first film; in 1984, she co-starred in “Paris, Texas” alongside Harry Dean Stanton, and worked with Wenders once last time in 1993’s “Faraway, So Close!” She also appeared nude in ’70s films “To the Devil a Daughter” and “Stay As You Are.” In 1997, she spoke out about being over-sexualized as an underage actor, telling 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.”
“Wrong Move” will remain unavailable, according to Wenders, until there is “a mutually agreed solution,” mentioning the need for a “broad dialogue” with the German Film Academy and Kinski. “It is necessary for our society to find appropriate ways of dealing with controversial film works from the 20th Century and to face new learning processes and inclusive perspectives regarding cinema.”
Variety has reached out to Kinski’s team for comment, who did not immediately respond.
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