Peter Nestler Movies

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

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.

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

Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.

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

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

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...

Rarely screened two part documentary on the Swedish-Chilean folk music group Victor Jaras barn [Victor Jara's Children], formed by folk musician and...

A cheerful take on the lives of school children in a Swiss rural environment. Young pupils recite short essays they have written on subjects such as...

For more than eight decades, German Sinti and Roma experienced injustice. The film tells of the family of activist Romani Rose, their resistance and...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...