Director Wim Wenders' decision to withdraw a 1975 film over a nude scene depicting a 13-year-old has sparked widespread debate in Germany on whether artworks should be changed retroactively.
The controversial scene in Wenders' 1975 film Wrong Move, a modern adaption of a novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, features then 13-year-old actress Nastassja Kinski with a bare upper body.
Kinski, now 65, said she had asked Wenders for years to remove the two-minute scene.
Wenders publicly apologised to Kinski in a statement, announcing that he would withdraw the film from distribution until "a mutually agreed solution" was found.
Reacting to the move, the German Film Academy said it would hold a meeting in September to address the issues raised by Wenders' decision.
