The German actress
Nastassja Kinski
asked that a 1977 television film that contains
scenes in which she appears naked
and that were captured when she was
a minor under 15 years old
and could not legally consent to its recording be stopped.
As the actress's lawyer explained this Tuesday to the weekly Der Spiegel, Nastassja Kinski wants the public broadcaster NDR, which owns the rights to
Reifezeugnis
(something like "Certificate of Maturity"), to eliminate said scenes or stop broadcasting the film.
The television film became
one of the most successful episodes of all time
of the police series
Tatort
("At the Crime Scene"), in part due to the scenes with Kinski, which, according to its NDR website, were became a "legend" and a
"sexual initiation for many adolescents."
What is your role
The actress who would become famous with films such as
Tess
(1979) or Paris, Texas (1984), plays on screen a
17-year-old student who embarks on an affair with her teacher and then fakes a rape
after murdering a classmate. class who wanted to abuse her under blackmail.
Nastassja Kinski, photographed in 1981 by the famous Richard Avedon.
"Nastassja Kinski was practically unaccompanied on the set when the scenes were filmed," said her lawyer, who specified that at that time Klaus Kinski's daughter was 15 years old and could not consent to filming naked.
Currently it would be unthinkable for a public channel to record scenes in which naked minors appear, he argued in reference to the television film, whose last revival took place in January of this year.
The lawyer also regretted that "after numerous #MeToo scandals in film and television" nudes of a minor continue to be described as "the moment of sexual awakening for many men."
The television network, for its part, did not assess the situation, but promised to respond to the actress within the established deadlines.
Klaus Kinski, Nastassja's father.
The actress said that he sexually abused her.
In 2013, the actress reported that her father had tried to abuse her when she was a child.
Source: EFE