Peter Nestler Movies

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

The film develops 5 questions about documentary film against the background of the media-political situation of the early 1970s in West Germany. The...

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

Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.

Interview with Peter Nestler about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hübner

This film is about the indigenous cultures of Ecuador, of what is past and what is preserved, of destruction and resistance, of persisting in new...

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

In the 1970's Peter and Zsóka Nestler made several educational documentaries on industrial production for Swedish public television. The...

A reflection on the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet captured in its economic and social causalities. Originally shot for a TV youth program but...

The film presents artists from the Sinti and Roma minority who shape the trauma of persecution and very personal experiences in their works.

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...

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...

The film documents the activities of two human-rights organisations during the military dictatorship in Chile — PIDEE (Protección de la...

A documentary of the town of Sheffield's main pub and the people who went there.

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