Peter Nestler Movies

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

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

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

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...

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

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

“Don’t be scared,” he’d whisper, “There’s nothing to be scared of. It’s just the hollow people.”...

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

Filmed aboard a Hungarian ship, this is a journey upstream the Danube, recalling the vital role the majestic river played in the settlement and...

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

"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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany

Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.