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 replied in German, which translated read 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.
