German director Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, Perfect Days) has pulled his 1975 film Wrong Move (Falsche Bewegung) out of circulation, citing a controversial nude scene with the then 13-year-old actress Nastassja Kinski.
Kinski has been trying for years to get Wenders to edit the film to cut out the controversial scene, in which she is shown lying on her bed, wearing only panties. In the scene, her 30-something co-star Rüdiger Vogler comes into the room, strips down to his underwear and lies on top of her, slapping her and then caressing her face.
“Although I didn’t know much at the age of 13, I could already tell that it wasn’t right,” Kinski said, in a recent interview with German newspaper the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
On Wednesday, the The Wim Wenders Foundation, which controls rights to the film, announced that it has withdrawn Wrong Move from circulation. “Streaming partners, television broadcasters and distribution partners will be instructed to cease public access to the film,” the non-profit group said in a statement.
Wenders has not said whether he plans to re-edit the film to remove the scene.
