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Germany·Human Rights

Wim Wenders withdraws 1975 film and apologises to Nastassja Kinski over topless scene filmed when she was 13

Thursday, 4 June 2026, 06:10 · 1 min read

German director Wim Wenders has announced he will withdraw his 1975 film Wrong Move from all forms of distribution and issue an unreserved public apology to actress Nastassja Kinski, who was filmed topless at the age of 13 during the production. In a statement published on Instagram, Wenders said streaming services, television broadcasters and distribution partners would be instructed to cease public access to the film, and pledged that it would only be rereleased once a mutually agreed solution — including Kinski's involvement — had been reached.

Wrong Move, known in German as Falsche Bewegung, is a road movie following a young German writer travelling through West Germany who encounters various characters along the way, including Kinski's — her very first film role. The film contains a sexualised scene in which Kinski appears topless alongside a male co-star who was in his early 30s at the time. Kinski, now 65, told the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung last month that she had been asking Wenders to remove the roughly two-minute scene for years.

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BBC WorldDirector Wim Wenders withdraws 1975 film over actress's teen topless scene ↗︎NOS NieuwsExcuses regisseur Wim Wenders voor naaktscène met 13-jarige Nastassja Kinski ↗︎tazNacktszene mit minderjähriger Kinski: Regisseur Wim Wenders zieht Film „Falsche Bewegung“ zurück ↗︎
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