Peter Nestler Movies

A large German city at the beginning of the 1960s. This is where the well-to-do Berger family lives. Outwardly a bourgeois idyll, but behind the...

A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and...

The burial of an old woman leads to several complications among family and friends.

The first part of this film is devoted to the Greek resistance against fascism and the civil war for independence. While the voice-over recites facts...

The revolt at Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943 is a central episode of resistance against national socialism. Thomas...

This dialogue-free short is edited to music and the rhythms of change in a small town in the Ruhr region, shot a few years after the first mining...

In a 13-minute navigation, Nestler takes us downstream the Rhine River. The opportunity of cheap water transport kept prices of raw material down and...

The film is based on the eponymous 1960 novel by author Peter Weiss. In this autobiographical text, the author describes the years of his childhood...

A cheerful take on the lives of school children in a Swiss rural environment. Young pupils recite short essays they have written on subjects such as...

Ethnologist and adventurer, Count Eric von Rosen was a man of contradictions: interested in the natives of Africa and colonial racism. Nestler...

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals...

This work produced by Swedish television, where Swedish kids reads texts written by Japanese kids about their experiencing of and surviving the...

A tribute to the victims of a mining disaster that happened in 1930 in Silesia before the reign of Nazi Germany.

A 1994 German language documentary written and directed by Peter Nestler.

Documentary short by Peter Nestler.

In 1950, Picasso was offered a room that had once been used as a chapel in his hometown of Vallauris. He pictured turning it into a “pagan site...

“Don’t be scared,” he’d whisper, “There’s nothing to be scared of. It’s just the hollow people.”...