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at the center of a headline-grabbing dispute between the German filmmaker and actress Nastassja Kinski, is being withdrawn from circulation for the time being.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.
"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.
Nastassja Kinski in the film 'The Wrong Move' (1975)Image: Albatros Produktion/Collection Christophel/picture allianceThe acclaimed German director first reacted publicly to Kinski's demands in 2024, stating that he understood her "current perceptions and feelings," adding that he would not film the scene that way today.
Through his acceptance speech for the Honorary Prize for Lifetime Achievement at the German Film Awards ceremony held in Berlin on May 29, Wenders turned the dispute into a wider public debate.
