Peter Nestler Movies

An emotional condemnation of the U.S.’s role in the war in North Vietnam, composed of photographs by Thomas Billhardt, this film depicts the...

A hommage to Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's film Quei loro incontri (2005), and to their access to cinema itself. In various...

The story begins on a hilltop, at an old castle that served as a German observation post in 1942. The traces of German fascism have also left their...

Still photography combined with moving imagery in this portrait of civic life in Chile. Made for Swedish public television almost a decade after the...

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

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

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...

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

Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany.

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 film is arguably Nestler's angriest documentary. It is a bitter personal statement about life in the Ruhr region: the fight against fascism, the...

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

Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.

Documentary that portrays Vincent van Gogh's live and work through his letters to his brother Theo.

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

Peter Nestler's short focusses the works of four Chilean artists: two painters [Nicolas de la Cruz and Jorge Kuhn], a graphic designer [Rolando...

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

The first part of a history about the history of paper.

Documentary about the journey of a barge through East Germany.

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