Overview
- Wim Wenders, who accepted the Deutsche Filmpreis honorary award on Sunday, said he would work differently today but stopped short of agreeing to cut the 1975 scene showing a 13-year-old Nastassja Kinski.
- Nastassja Kinski has long sought removal of the shot and told reporters she "already noticed that it was not right" when she was 13, a demand that remains unresolved.
- Several outlets have reported that Wenders asked partners to make Falsche Bewegung inaccessible and that he is exploring AI-based changes, but those reports rely on unnamed sources and remain unverified.
- Film scholars and commentators criticized Wenders' gala remarks as deflecting personal responsibility, with voices such as Annette Brauerhoch calling his appearance inappropriate and urging direct accountability.
- The dispute has sparked wider debate over precedent, legal authority, archival duties, and the ethics and technical limits of retroactively editing historical films, with industry-wide standards now being called for.