Wim Wenders pulls 'Wrong Move' film featuring topless Nastassja Kinski when she was 13 years old

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Acclaimed German director Wim Wenders announced he was withdrawing his 1975 film, “Wrong Move,” from distribution due to a scene featuring then-13-year-old actor Nastassja Kinski topless.Kinski played Mignon, a mute acrobat and street performer, in the film.In the controversial scene, she is featured lying on the bed topless as she tries to seduce her 30-something co-star Rüdiger Vogler, who plays Wilhelm.

Wilhelm enters the room, removes most of his clothing and gets into bed with her, slaps her, pushes her away and then caresses her face and cradles her.Kinski, who also starred in Roman Polanski’s “Tess” and Wenders’ “Paris, Texas,” has voiced her discomfort with the scene for decades and recently told a German news outlet that, although she “didn’t know much at the age of 13,” she could tell that it wasn’t right.In a 1997 USA TV interview, she was candid about wishing some of her work could be scrubbed from the screen permanently, saying, “I’ve done quite a lot of movies, a lot of movies that I want to just go and burn someplace.

You always calculate ‘how much would that cost? How would I do that?’ and just know it’ll exist forever.It won’t be showing all that much, but just the fact that it’s there and it’ll exist.” German director Wim Wenders has had a prolific career, making films both famous and obscure.

She told W Magazine the same year, “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 said.

“And inside it was just tearing me apart.”Per the Hollywood Reporter, Wenders received a lifetime achievement award at the German Film Awards last week and addressed the “Wrong Move” issue in his speech, saying that he would not shoot the scene today.He also said that he knew that keeping it in the film had continued to cause Kinski...