{"id":481683,"date":"2026-06-03T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481683\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T23:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:05:12","slug":"wim-wenders-withdraws-early-film-from-distribution-after-campaign-by-nastassja-kinski-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481683\/","title":{"rendered":"Wim Wenders withdraws early film from distribution after campaign by Nastassja Kinski \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

German<\/a> film director Wim Wenders<\/a> has withdrawn an early film from distribution after a years-long campaign by its star, Nastassja Kinski.<\/p>\n

The actor was just 13 when she starred in the 1975 Wenders film Falsche Bewegung (Wrong Move), which includes a controversial sexualised scene where she is seen wearing only pants alongside an older man.<\/p>\n

\u201cThough I didn\u2019t know much at the age of 13, I could tell already that this wasn\u2019t right,\u201d said Kinski in a recent interview with the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung daily.<\/p>\n

On Instagram, under a still from the film, she addressed Wenders directly: \u201cI wished for justice back then, but at least now Wim Wenders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding in 2024 to her long-running demand that he cut the scene, Wenders said he understood Kinski\u2019s \u201ccurrent perceptions and feelings\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"NastassjaNastassja Kinski. Photograph: Tristan Fewings\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

After another push by the actor in recent months, and threat of legal action, Wenders addressed the controversy last Friday at the German Film Awards. <\/p>\n

Receiving a lifetime achievement award, the 80-year-old said he would not film that scene in the same way now.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I can\u2019t blame the 29-year-old young man I was then, 50 years ago, who made a film of his time, who wanted, in a way, to capture the zeitgeist,\u201d said Wenders, who went on to work with Kinski in two further films.<\/p>\n

\u201cI deeply admired her, I still do,\u201d added Wenders.<\/p>\n

In his defence, Wenders cited how director Steven Spielberg said he had made a \u201cmistake\u201d by re-editing E.T. for its 20th anniversary release, digitally replacing police guns with walkie-talkies.<\/p>\n

\u201cE. T. is a product of its era,\u201d said Spielberg to a Time magazine event in 2023. \u201cNo film should be revised based on the lenses we now are either voluntarily or being forced to peer through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Onstage in Berlin on Friday, Wenders said he felt \u201calone\u201d with his dilemma and asked for a wider debate on the rights and wrongs of re-editing films after their initial release.<\/p>\n

His plea met with a lukewarm response, with many suggesting Wenders was trying to shift responsibility for his particular problem on to the wider film industry.<\/p>\n

In a leader article, the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung mocked the German director for framing Kinski\u2019s demand at the award ceremony as \u201ca threat to the very freedom of cinema itself, the freedom of every single artist in the room\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone watching and listening to his words could only feel stunned,\u201d the newspaper concluded.<\/p>\n

The Tagesspiegel daily suggested the problem was no longer the scene itself but how the director had \u201cavoided confrontation\u201d with Kinski for years.<\/p>\n

Kinski\u2019s lawyer Christian Schertz criticised the Wenders speech for implying the director was a victim of \u201ccensorship or cancel culture\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Wim Wenders Foundation said it was withdrawing Wrong Move, until further notice, from distribution and all streaming platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German film director Wim Wenders has withdrawn an early film from distribution after a years-long campaign by its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,2785],"class_list":["post-481683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-wim-wenders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}