Peter Nestler Movies

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

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.

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

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

Essay film about the origins of war in human history

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...

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...

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...

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

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

"Nestler relates the histories of shipbuilding, armaments, and war in Europe to the exploitation of labor and the circulation of knowledge and...

Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.

This dialogue-free short is edited to music and the rhythms of change in a small town in the Ruhr region, shot a few years after the first mining...

In his first film, Peter Nestler gives voice to an old floodgate. A nearby village, its inhabitants, wooden posts and twisted willow rods are...

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...

"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...

Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden

Greker i Sverige [Greeks in Sweden] consists of a staged discussion between Greek political refugees in Sweden. Dialogue is mainly in Greek, but the...

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