Peter Nestler Movies

This work produced by Swedish television, where Swedish kids reads texts written by Japanese kids about their experiencing of and surviving the...

Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany.

The film documents the activities of two human-rights organisations during the military dictatorship in Chile — PIDEE (Protección de la...

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

Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Jewish painter Leopold Mayer fled his native Frankfurt at the rise of the Nazi regime. Although briefly finding refuge in France, where he changed...

Essay film about the origins of war in human history.

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

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

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...

A contribution from the documentary film cycle about the invention and development of certain work techniques, production processes and materials.

A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

Documentary about empty space in Berlin