Peter Nestler Movies

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

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

Roma and Sinti people talk about their experiences in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany, inspired by Otto Pankok’s paintings...

Today, the Römerstrasse in Italy's Aosta valley, is a significant traffic artery in the center of modern Europe. Nestler's journey explores the...

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

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

This is the first part of a history about the history of paper.

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

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...

Peter Nestler, an important German filmmaker with an extensive filmography, agrees with Chilean filmmaker Rodrigo Gonçalves, exiled in Sweden,...

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

short film about a wicker weaver in Budapest

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...

Humanity’s thirst for knowledge and its consequences, from the Bible to the A-bomb. Nestler uses sixteenth-century engravings and paintings by...

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

Nestler traces the history of Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto from the middle ages to the present day.

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

A documentary about the Sami people across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and about the environmental devastation in that area throughout 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...