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.

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

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

Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.

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...

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...

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

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

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

A documentary of the town of Sheffield's main pub and the people who went there.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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