Overview
- Wim Wenders announced Wednesday that he has withdrawn Wrong Move from all current channels of distribution and issued an unreserved apology to Nastassja Kinski for not having protected her during the 1975 production.
- The Wim Wenders Foundation, which owns the film, instructed distributors and platforms to stop showing it and said the title will remain unavailable until a mutually agreed solution is reached with Kinski and relevant German film bodies.
- Kinski has for decades sought changes to the film and renewed public criticism in May when she told Sueddeutsche Zeitung she had long pressed Wenders to alter the scene in which she appears topless at age 13.
- Kinski’s lawyer welcomed the withdrawal but called it long overdue and said the decision came only after sustained public and media pressure, leaving questions about how firmly institutions will act without public scrutiny.
- The move raises broader questions about how archives, festivals and rights holders should handle problematic 20th‑century works, and it could prompt industry discussions on safeguards for child performers and standards for reissuing older films.