Peter Nestler Movies
- 1963
The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle
The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle6.21963HD
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.
- 1961
Und sowas nennt sich Leben
Und sowas nennt sich Leben71961HD
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...
- 1961
Black Gravel
Black Gravel71961HD
Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.
- 1958
Der Schinderhannes
Der Schinderhannes6.81958HD
1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and...
- 1966
Rhine River
Rhine River5.81966HD
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...
- 2017
Farewell to the Parents
Farewell to the Parents02017HD
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...
- 1966
Abschied
Abschied01966HD
The burial of an old woman leads to several complications among family and friends.
- 1973
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene5.51973HD
This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals...
- 1966
From Greece
From Greece7.61966HD
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...
- 2000
Flight
Flight02000HD
Jewish painter Leopold Mayer fled his native Frankfurt at the rise of the Nazi regime. Although briefly finding refuge in France, where he changed...
- 2009
Death and the Devil
Death and the Devil52009HD
Ethnologist and adventurer, Count Eric von Rosen was a man of contradictions: interested in the natives of Africa and colonial racism. Nestler...
- 1981
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...
- 1974
Saturday Chile
Saturday Chile01974HD
A reflection on the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet captured in its economic and social causalities. Originally shot for a TV youth program but...
- 2015
The Hollow People
The Hollow People02015HD
“Don’t be scared,” he’d whisper, “There’s nothing to be scared of. It’s just the hollow people.”...
- 1978
Foreigners. Part IV. Iranians
Foreigners. Part IV. Iranians01978HD
Second documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden
- 1999
The Roman Street in the Aosta Valley
The Roman Street in the Aosta Valley51999HD
Today, the Römerstrasse in Italy's Aosta valley, is a significant traffic artery in the center of modern Europe. Nestler's journey explores the...
- 1971
About the History of Paper, Pt. 1
About the History of Paper, Pt. 101971HD
This is the first part of a history about the history of paper.
- 2007
Verteidigung der Zeit
Verteidigung der Zeit02007HD
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...
- 1991
The North Calotte
The North Calotte51991HD
A documentary about the Sami people across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and about the environmental devastation in that area throughout the...
- 2021
Picasso in Vallauris
Picasso in Vallauris62021HD
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...