German filmmaker Wim Wenders on Wednesday mentioned he has pulled his 1975 film “The Wrong Move” over a nude scene that includes a then-13-year-old Nastassja Kinski.
Kinski, now 65, has urged Wenders to reedit the movie. Last month, she advised the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung: “That was my first film, he was my first director and he didn’t protect me.”
Wenders, the acclaimed director behind “Paris, Texas” and “Wings of Desire,” issued a press release apologizing to Kinski.
“I recognize that Nastassja Kinski should have been better protected back then,” Wenders mentioned. “For that, I apologize to you, Nastassja, unreservedly, no ifs and buts.”
“The Wrong Move” marked the movie debut of Kinski, the daughter of actor Klaus Kinski. It stars Rüdiger Vogler as an aspiring author wandering via Germany. His encounters embrace an apparently mute teen acrobat performed by Kinski, who seems topless in a scene.
Wenders mentioned he was “withdrawing it from all current forms of distribution and exhibition,” together with streaming providers and broadcast tv. His nonprofit Wim Wenders Foundation owns “The Wrong Move.”
The movie will stay unavailable, Wenders mentioned, till a mutually agreed upon answer will be discovered. He mentioned he’ll search “a broad dialogue” that features Kinksi, the German Film Academy and different movie teams.
“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,” mentioned Wenders.
Representatives for Kinski didn’t instantly reply to The Associated Press’ request for remark Wednesday.
At the German Film Awards final week, Wenders spoke about his quandary over the movie. Speaking to the viewers at Germany’s equal of the Oscars, Wenders mentioned retroactively modifying it “sets a precedent that affects you all, and then it becomes possible with all your films later on.”
Kinski would go on to co-star in Wenders’ 1984 movie “Paris, Texas,” however lengthy maintained misgivings about her introduction to the movie enterprise. At the ages of 14 and 17, she additionally appeared nude within the movies “To the Devil a Daughter” and “Stay As You Are.”
“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,” Kinski advised W Magazine in 1997. “And inside it was simply tearing me aside.”
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