Peter Nestler Movies
- 1991
The North Calotte
The North Calotte51991HD
A documentary about the Sami people across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and about the environmental devastation in that area throughout the...
- 2022
Injustice and Resistance
Injustice and Resistance02022HD
For more than eight decades, German Sinti and Roma experienced injustice. The film tells of the family of activist Romani Rose, their resistance and...
- 1968
Sightseeing
Sightseeing01968HD
A short pamphlet based on a text by Peter Weiss and on the contrapuntal use of the relation between image and sound. The commercial activities and...
- 1976
Foreigners Pt. 1: Ships and Cannons
Foreigners Pt. 1: Ships and Cannons01976HD
"Nestler relates the histories of shipbuilding, armaments, and war in Europe to the exploitation of labor and the circulation of knowledge and...
- 1981
Is Peace Anti-Constitutional?
Is Peace Anti-Constitutional?01981HD
Rarely screened documentary on West-German anti-communism and the Deutsches Friedenunion [The German Peace Union]. Made in collaboration with...
- 1999
The Roman Street in the Aosta Valley
The Roman Street in the Aosta Valley51999HD
Today, the Römerstrasse in Italy's Aosta valley, is a significant traffic artery in the center of modern Europe. Nestler's journey explores the...
- 1961
The Magic Fountain
The Magic Fountain01961HD
In this tale based on a Brothers Grimm story, Prince Alfred searches for an enchanted castle that holds a magic fountain whose waters can cure his...
- 2021
Picasso in Vallauris
Picasso in Vallauris62021HD
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...
- 1969
In Budapest
In Budapest01969HD
short film about a wicker weaver in Budapest
- 1997
Pachamama: Our Land
Pachamama: Our Land7.31997HD
“This film is about the indigenous cultures of Ecuador, of what is past and what is preserved, of destruction and resistance, of persisting in...
- 1970
Varför är det krig?
Varför är det krig?01970HD
Essay film about the origins of war in human history
- 1975
Mining/Ironworks, Pt. 2
Mining/Ironworks, Pt. 201975HD
In the 1970s, Peter and his wife, Zsóka Nestler, collaborated on a series of educational films for television that focused on craft-making....
- 1981
Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?
Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?5.51981HD
This work produced by Swedish television, where Swedish kids reads texts written by Japanese kids about their experiencing of and surviving the...
- 2007
Verteidigung der Zeit
Verteidigung der Zeit02007HD
Peter Nestler's poetic documentary Verteidigung der Zeit is not only an hommage to Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's film Quei loro...
- 2002
Die Verwandlung des guten Nachbarn
Die Verwandlung des guten Nachbarn02002HD
The revolt at Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943 is a central episode of resistance against national socialism. Thomas...
- 1996
Hararna fångar och steker jägaren
Hararna fångar och steker jägaren01996HD
Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.
- 1991
Am Rand
Am Rand01991HD
Documentary about empty space in Berlin
- 1968
Röster från Ruhr
Röster från Ruhr01968HD
This film is arguably Nestler's angriest documentary. It is a bitter personal statement about life in the Ruhr region: the fight against fascism, the...
- 1970
Up the Danube
Up the Danube01970HD
Filmed aboard a Hungarian ship, this is a journey upstream the Danube, recalling the vital role the majestic river played in the settlement and...
- 2015
The Hollow People
The Hollow People02015HD
“Don’t be scared,” he’d whisper, “There’s nothing to be scared of. It’s just the hollow people.”...