Peter Nestler Movies

  • 1963
    The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

    The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

    The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

    6.21963HD

    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 Strangler of Blackmoor Castle
  • 1961
    Und sowas nennt sich Leben

    Und sowas nennt sich Leben

    Und sowas nennt sich Leben

    71961HD

    A large German city at the beginning of the 1960s. This is where the well-to-do Berger family lives. Outwardly a bourgeois idyll, but behind the...

    Und sowas nennt sich Leben
  • 1961
    Black Gravel

    Black Gravel

    Black Gravel

    71961HD

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

    Black Gravel
  • 1958
    Der Schinderhannes

    Der Schinderhannes

    Der Schinderhannes

    6.81958HD

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

    Der Schinderhannes
  • 1966
    Rhine River

    Rhine River

    Rhine River

    5.81966HD

    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...

    Rhine River
  • 2017
    Farewell to the Parents

    Farewell to the Parents

    Farewell to the Parents

    02017HD

    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...

    Farewell to the Parents
  • 1966
    Abschied

    Abschied

    Abschied

    01966HD

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

    Abschied
  • 1973
    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    5.51973HD

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

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
  • 1966
    From Greece

    From Greece

    From Greece

    7.61966HD

    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...

    From Greece
  • 2000
    Flight

    Flight

    Flight

    02000HD

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

    Flight
  • 2009
    Death and the Devil

    Death and the Devil

    Death and the Devil

    52009HD

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

    Death and the Devil
  • 1981
    Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?

    Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?

    Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?

    5.51981HD

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

    Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?
  • 1974
    Saturday Chile

    Saturday Chile

    Saturday Chile

    01974HD

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

    Saturday Chile
  • 2015
    The Hollow People

    The Hollow People

    The Hollow People

    02015HD

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

    The Hollow People
  • 1978
    Foreigners. Part IV. Iranians

    Foreigners. Part IV. Iranians

    Foreigners. Part IV. Iranians

    01978HD

    Second documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden

    Foreigners. Part IV. Iranians
  • 1999
    The Roman Street in the Aosta Valley

    The Roman Street in the Aosta Valley

    The Roman Street in the Aosta Valley

    51999HD

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

    The Roman Street in the Aosta Valley
  • 1971
    About the History of Paper, Pt. 1

    About the History of Paper, Pt. 1

    About the History of Paper, Pt. 1

    01971HD

    This is the first part of a history about the history of paper.

    About the History of Paper, Pt. 1
  • 2007
    Verteidigung der Zeit

    Verteidigung der Zeit

    Verteidigung der Zeit

    02007HD

    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...

    Verteidigung der Zeit
  • 1991
    The North Calotte

    The North Calotte

    The North Calotte

    51991HD

    A documentary about the Sami people across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and about the environmental devastation in that area throughout the...

    The North Calotte
  • 2021
    Picasso in Vallauris

    Picasso in Vallauris

    Picasso in Vallauris

    62021HD

    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...

    Picasso in Vallauris