The actress Nastassja Kinski (Berlin, 63 years old) has requested, through her lawyer in the weekly
Der Spiegel,
that a 1977 television film that contains sequences in which she appears naked and that were captured when she was a minor be stopped from being broadcast. 15 years.
The film belongs to the series
At the Scene of the Crime,
a classic of the public channel NDR, which began with it in 1970 and continues to produce new installments today.
Kinski's is titled
Reifezeugnis
(Certificate of Maturity), and the interpreter's representative asks that it stop broadcasting (the last time was last January) or that at least the nude sequences of her client be removed.
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On screen Kinski plays a 17-year-old student who embarks on an affair with her teacher and then fakes a rape after murdering a classmate who wanted to abuse her under blackmail.
According to the Efe agency, the title of the Tatort
saga (its original name) is advertised on the NDR network website
because of those nudes of its protagonist, which became a “legend” and a “sexual initiation for many adolescents.” ”.
The lawyer tells
Der Spiegel
that at the time of filming Kinski “was unaccompanied on the set”, and that at 15 years old she could not consent to film the shots naked, because she was not of legal age.
Currently, it is prohibited for minors to appear naked in sexual sequences.
The lawyer also regretted that “after Me Too in film and television” nudes of a minor continue to be described as “the moment of sexual awakening for many men.”
Nastassja Kinski, in her appearance in 1977 (although she had filmed it when she was 15 years old) in one of the television films of the 'Reifezeugnis' series.
The NDR television network has not responded to the allegations directly, although it has promised to evaluate it “within the established deadlines.”
At the scene of the crime
was the third professional work in the audiovisual field of the interpreter, who would become famous a couple of years after her by starring in
Tess
(1979), by Roman Polanski.
She later consolidated herself with
Kiss of the Panther
(1982) and
Paris, Texas
(1984).
In 2013, the actress reported that her father had tried to abuse her when she was a child, after the publication of a book by her older sister, Pola, in which she described the sexual violence suffered by Pola from her father, the Also actor Klaus Kinski, during his childhood and adolescence.
The volume received support from Nastassja.
“She felt above everything and simply took what she wanted,” Pola said in
Kindermund
(Child's Word).
“She mistreated everyone;
she never respected people.”