Nastassja Kinski praises sister for reporting sex abuse 
 
 Nastassja Kinski is seen here in 1993 
 
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 The actress Nastassja Kinski has praised her half-sister Pola for her courage in reporting that their late father Klaus abused her as a child. 
 
 Pola said she had been abused between the ages of five and 19 by the actor, who died in 1991 after a career making some of Germany's most notable films. 
 
 Nastassja was quoted by Bild newspaper as saying she was "deeply shocked" by the revelations. 
 
 But she was proud, she added, that Pola had found the strength to speak out. 
 
 The elder sister, 60, made the revelations in an interview published by Stern magazine on Thursday, ahead of the publication of her autobiography. 
 
 Klaus Kinski acted in spaghetti westerns before starring in films by director Werner Herzog which included Aguirre The Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and Fitzcarraldo (1982). 
 
 Revered by many for his film work long after his death, he was also famous for his numerous sexual liaisons with adults. 
 
 'Heroine' 
 
 Klaus Kinski died in 1991 
 
 "My sister is a heroine, because she has freed her heart, her soul and also her future from the weight of the secret," Nastassja Kinski said. 
 
 "This is a difficult moment for me. I am on my sister's side, I support her. I am deeply shocked." 
 
 The actress, 51, whose films include Roman Polanski's Tess and Paris Texas by Wim Wenders, said she had read Pola's words and wept. 
 
 Pola's book Kindermund, she argued, would help "all the children, adolescents and mothers who fear their father and swallow this fear to hide it in the depths of their souls". 
 
 Pola Kinski, herself an actress, spoke to Stern ahead of the release of her autobiography. 
 
 She said she had decided to speak out about the abuse because of the continuing adulation for her father. 
 
 "The terrible thing is that he once told me that it was completely natural, that fathers all over the world did that with their daughters," she said. 
 
 "He was paying for me to be his little sex object, placed on silk cushions." 
 
 A biographer of Klaus Kinski, Christian David, told BBC News there had been rumours about the relationship between the actor and Pola for years before this week's revelations. ||||| This article is over 1 year old 
 
 A woman named Renate Langer interviewed by police says the film-maker raped her in the town of Gstaad when she was 15, in 1972 
 
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 St Gallen’s police communications chief, Hanspeter Krüsi, confirmed the details of the allegations, first reported by the New York Times. 
 
 Krüsi told AFP that police interviewed Renate Langer on 26 September concerning accusations that Polanski raped her in Gstaad when she was 15. 
 
 Polanski in 1977 pleaded guilty in the United States to having unlawful sex with Samantha Geimer – aged 13 at the time – but fled the country before he could be sentenced. He remains a fugitive from the US justice system. 
 
 Langer is a 61-year-old former actress who was born in Munich, according to multiple media reports. 
 
 She is the fourth woman to publicly accuse Polanski of sexual assault. 
 
 In August, a woman identified only as Robin told a news conference in Los Angeles she was “sexually victimised” by the French-Polish film director when she was 16, in 1973. 
 
 Robin said she was prompted to come forward out of anger after Geimer urged authorities to finally put her famous case to rest. 
 
 Robin told reporters she wanted people to know that Polanski, now 84, had victimised others. 
 
 According to the New York Times, Langer finally decided to approach police in part because of Robin’s example and because her parents are no longer alive. 
 
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 She told the paper she met Polanski while working as a model in Munich and travelled with him to a house in Gstaad, where she said he raped her. 
 
 Krüsi told AFP it was not yet clear if criminal charges would be filed. 
 
 Swiss prosecutors can still move forward with the case, although the elapsed time makes it less likely. 
 
 Polanski’s film career has continued to flourish since he fled the US for France, where many consider him an icon. 
 
 He has eight Césars – the French equivalent of an Oscar – as well as a best director Academy Award for Holocaust drama The Pianist.
– The daughter of madman actor Klaus Kinski says he raped her repeatedly throughout her youth and showed not a shred of remorse, Der Spiegel reports. Pola Kinski, now 60, says the star of Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, the Wrath of God "flouted everything—even the fact that I often resisted and said, 'I don't want to.' He didn't care. He simply took what he wanted." The BBC reports that she describes herself as "his little sex object" from ages 5 to 19. "The terrible thing is that he once told me that it was completely natural, that fathers all over the world did that with their daughters." Pola's sister Nastassja Kinski said she is "deeply shocked" by her sister's story: "My sister is a heroine, because she has freed her heart, her soul and also her future from the weight of the secret." But an op-ed piece in Der Spiegel argues that Klaus Kinski's "alleged depravity" has only authenticated the "evil that he oozed on the silver screen." Writes Arno Frank: "They were also trips into the soul of his tortured lead actor—and that is what gave his works such power." Pola Kinski, also an actor, made the revelations in advance of her upcoming memoir Kindermund, or Child's Mouth. Her father died in 1991, at age 65, of a heart attack.