She also appeared on television, notably playing a starring role in the second season of the TV-series La piovra. 6 7 8 The US record company issued it with an alternative cover which showed a photograph of the band on the front. Photographer Bob Seidemann used a girl, Mariora Goschen, who was 11 years old. She was also in a number of art films, including Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman (1982) and Federico Fellini's Intervista (1987). The cover featured a topless pubescent girl, holding in her hands a silver space ship, which some perceived as phallic. In the 1980s Wendel was mainly active in horror films, working with Dario Argento ( Tenebrae, 1982), Lamberto Bava ( Midnight Killer, 1986), Joe D'Amato ( Killing Birds, 1988), and Umberto Lenzi ( Ghosthouse, 1988) among others. Later she appeared in other controversial films, characterized by plots involving incest and improper relations between adults and adolescents, such as La petite fille en velours bleu ( Little Girl in Blue Velvet, 1978), Mimi (1979), and Desideria: la vita interiore (1980). Wendel had her first main role at 12 years old in the controversial erotic drama Maladolescenza (1977), which involved both nudity and simulated sex among preadolescents. She also appeared as Mario Adorf's daughter Rita in Manhunt (1972), directed by Fernando Di Leo, and as the young Silvia in The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974), directed by Francesco Barilli. She made her debut at just four years old as a model for ads, and at the age of seven she made her film debut in the Tonino Valerii's giallo film My Dear Killer (1972). Widower Paul always delayed talking to his daughter about sex.
Wendel is the daughter of German actress Britta Wendel and of the American football player and film actor Walt Barnes. Lara Wendel (born Daniela Barnes 29 March 1965) is a German former actress who was active in Italian cinema and television.