Overview
- Wim Wenders issued a public apology Wednesday and the Wim Wenders Foundation said it would stop licensing the 1975 film Falso movimento while it seeks a negotiated solution with Nastassja Kinski.
- Kinski, who was 13 when the film was made, has long asked for a brief semi‑nude sequence to be removed and her lawyers say they will formally request the cut on the grounds there was no legal consent.
- Reports describe the contested shot as showing Kinski in only a slip on a bed with an older man who slaps and then caresses her, a sequence Kinski says caused lasting distress.
- Wenders’ camp and Kinski differ over whether her mother was informed at the time and whether lawful parental consent existed, leaving the factual and legal questions still unresolved.
- The case has immediate distribution effects because the foundation owns the rights and it could prompt wider changes in how archives, festivals and platforms handle films made under past practices.