The German filmmaker also apologized to Kinski who he says “should have been better protected back then.”

Wim Wenders pulls 1975 film The Wrong Move after Nastassja Kinski condemns her underage nude scene

The German filmmaker also apologized to Kinski who he says "should have been better protected back then."

By Kathleen Perricone

June 3, 2026 7:47 p.m. ET

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Wim Wenders and Natassja Kinski in 2017. Credit:

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- Wim Wenders has pulled his 1975 film, *The Wrong Move*, due to a sexualized scene featuring an underage Natassja Kinski.

- The German filmmaker also apologized to the actress for not protecting her "better" at the time.

- "Although I didn't know much at the age of 13," said Kinski recently, "I could already tell that it wasn't right."

Wim Wenders intends to right a widely-perceived wrong about one of his most acclaimed films, five decades later.

The German filmmaker announced he's pulling *The Wrong Move* from circulation at the urging of Natassja Kinski, who was 13 when she appeared in the 1975 drama. For years, she has asked Wenders to edit out a controversial scene in which the young actress is shown topless.

"Although I didn't know much at the age of 13, I could already tell that it wasn't right," Kinski said most recently to German newspaper *Süddeutsche Zeitung*. “That was my first film, he was my first director, and he didn’t protect me."

Kinski in 2025.

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Now, Wenders is taking action, as well as accountability for what transpired more than 50 years ago.

"I recognize that Nastassja Kinski should have been better protected back then," the 80-year-old director said in a statement. "For that, I apologize to you, Nastassja, unreservedly, no ifs and buts."

Furthermore, *The Wrong Move* has been withdrawn from "all current forms of distribution and exhibition. Streaming partners, television broadcasters and distribution partners will be instructed to cease public access to the film."

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A representatives for Kinski did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.

*The Wrong Move* is the second in Wenders' "road movie trilogy" that includes *Alice in the Cities* (1974) and *Kings of the Road* (1976), all of which are set in West Germany.

As recently as May 29 the director acknowledged Kinski's trauma surrounding *The Wrong Move*.

At the German Film Awards, where he received a lifetime achievement award, Wenders said the actress was someone "whom I deeply admired, and still do" and admitted he wouldn't shoot the controversial scene today. "I can't blame the 29-year-old young man I was then, 50 years ago, who made a film of his time; wanting, in a way, to capture the zeitgeist," he explained.

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Kinski, now 65, worked with Wenders on two other films, *Paris, Texas* (1984) and *Faraway, So Close! *(1993). In 2017, they were photographed together on the red carpet at the European Film Awards in Berlin.

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