Peter Nestler Movies

Stoff (1) is part of a series of films made for television and aimed at young audiences. The series was dedicated to the history and techniques...

Greker i Sverige [Greeks in Sweden] consists of a staged discussion between Greek political refugees in Sweden. Dialogue is mainly in Greek, but the...

Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden

Essay film about the origins of war in human history

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

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

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...

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

Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.

Peter and Zsóka Nestler collaborated on this film, an exploration of the working techniques involved in the process of glass-making.

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

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

How to Make Glass (Mechanically) is part of a series of educational films for television intended for young audiences. Directed by Peter 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...

For more than eight decades, German Sinti and Roma experienced injustice. The film tells of the family of activist Romani Rose, their resistance and...

Rarely screened two part documentary on the Swedish-Chilean folk music group Victor Jaras barn [Victor Jara's Children], formed by folk musician and...

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

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...