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.

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...

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

In his first film, Peter Nestler gives voice to an old floodgate. A nearby village, its inhabitants, wooden posts and twisted willow rods are...

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

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...

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

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...

A film of Hungarian folk artists, sharing their handicrafts and paintings with the filmmakers.

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...

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...

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

Filmed in Spain, Finland, Sweden, and West Germany, 'Spanien!' investigates ideas of internationalism and solidarity, using personal testimonies from...

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

Rarely screened documentary on West-German anti-communism and the Deutsches Friedenunion [The German Peace Union]. Made in collaboration with...

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

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...

Portrait of a small south German village and its residents in the early sixties. Rural culture is undergoing a transformation caused by the intrusion...

Documentary about the journey of a barge through East Germany.

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