RPG wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2026 4:32 pmI'd say the nudity involved in Wrong Move is in the setting of unambiguously eroticized physical contact. Was this screened in the UK?
OK, this is interesting; it seems that the BBFC did indeed cut it for UK video release in 2004, and for precisely that reason. So yes, it did cross that particular line in a way that À nos amours didn't.
(I haven't seen it myself.)
It opened theatrically in mid-1977, but without a BBFC certificate, and in any case this was before the passage of the 1978 Protection of Children Act.
I haven't seen it either, but do you have a source for it having been cut? The BBFC site has a cinema pass in 1980 (with an obviously inaccurate time of 41 minutes - should be 103) and homeviewing passes in 1995, 2007 and 2008, but not 2004, none of them cut.
I wonder if Kinski has ever spoken about To the Devil a Daughter, which she made at the age of fourteen. She's not only topless but full-frontal in that, but as she's the only person in that particular shot, it's deemed not to be a sexual scene and not in breach of the Act so the BBFC have never cut it. There are other reasons in the film for an X or 18 certificate. But I wonder if this might go out of circulation too.
RPG wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2026 4:32 pmI'd say the nudity involved in Wrong Move is in the setting of unambiguously eroticized physical contact. Was this screened in the UK?
OK, this is interesting; it seems that the BBFC did indeed cut it for UK video release in 2004, and for precisely that reason. So yes, it did cross that particular line in a way that À nos amours didn't.
(I haven't seen it myself.)
It opened theatrically in mid-1977, but without a BBFC certificate, and in any case this was before the passage of the 1978 Protection of Children Act.
I haven't seen it either, but do you have a source for it having been cut? The BBFC site has a cinema pass in 1980 (with an obviously inaccurate time of 41 minutes - should be 103) and homeviewing passes in 1995, 2007 and 2008, but not 2004, none of them cut.
I wonder if Kinski has ever spoken about To the Devil a Daughter, which she made at the age of fourteen. She's not only topless but full-frontal in that, but as she's the only person in that particular shot, it's deemed not to be a sexual scene and not in breach of the Act so the BBFC have never cut it. There are other reasons in the film for an X or 18 certificate. But I wonder if this might go out of circulation too.
In the German media it was reported that Kinski collectively called out all early films and TV series where she appeared naked or near naked, which comprises at least her first five appearances on screen and she's been pursuing this for a while now. I guess the focus is most on Wrong Move because she was so young and Wenders recently issued a reply that didn't go down well. A notable case in Germany is a feature length episodes of the long running (56 years and still going) German police procedural Tatort, which was directed Wolfgang Petersen. She was 15 then, played a seductive teen femme fatale and the context of her nudity was certainly sexual. In 2024 she's received an apology and come to "an agreement" with the TV channel ARD and that there are no plans to screen the episode again. I guess for Kinski this came all more into focus since her sister Pola Kinski revealed that their father Klaus Kinki sexually abused her from the age of 5. I always wondered why there hasn't been more outrage over that.
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