Peter Nestler Movies

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

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

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

Second documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden.

Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden.

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

A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

Peter Nestler portrays the everyday life of two young music students from Budapest who are trying to balance their family life, which is shaped by...

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...

Nestler relates the histories of shipbuilding, armaments, and war in Europe to the exploitation of labor and the circulation of knowledge and capital...

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

Documentary short made for Swedish public television (SVT) about the past and current situation for Native Americans in the US. The film was produced...

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

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

With the help of drawings, Nestler provides a historical overview of the types of work associated with industries that are crucial to Scandinavia,...

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

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

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

A short film about a wicker weaver in Budapest.