Peter Nestler Movies

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

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...

The revolt at Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943 is a central episode of resistance against national socialism. Thomas...

A short pamphlet based on a text by Peter Weiss and on the contrapuntal use of the relation between image and sound. The commercial activities and...

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

Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany

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

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

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

Portrait of a small south German village and its residents in the early sixties. Rural culture is undergoing a transformation caused by the intrusion...

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

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

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

A 1994 German language documentary written and directed by Peter Nestler.

Still photography combined with moving imagery in this portrait of civic life in Chile. Made for Swedish public television almost a decade after the...

Rarely screened documentary on West-German anti-communism and the Deutsches Friedenunion [The German Peace Union]. Made in collaboration with...

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

Shot in the commercial harbor of Fos-sur-Mer in Southern France, this film denounces the destruction of the region and the poor living and working...

In the 1970s, Peter and his wife, Zsóka Nestler, collaborated on a series of educational films for television that focused on craft-making....

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