Peter Nestler Movies
- 1966
Abschied
Abschied01966HD
The burial of an old woman leads to several complications among family and friends.
- 1963
The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle
The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle6.0631963HD
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.
- 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...
- 1961
The Magic Fountain
The Magic Fountain01961HD
In this tale based on a Brothers Grimm story, Prince Alfred searches for an enchanted castle that holds a magic fountain whose waters can cure his...
- 1958
Der Schinderhannes
Der Schinderhannes7.81958HD
- 1997
Pachamama: Our Land
Pachamama: Our Land7.31997HD
“This film is about the indigenous cultures of Ecuador, of what is past and what is preserved, of destruction and resistance, of persisting in...
- 1984
Dangerous Knowledge
Dangerous Knowledge01984HD
Humanity’s thirst for knowledge and its consequences, from the Bible to the A-bomb. Nestler uses sixteenth-century engravings and paintings by...
- 1961
Black Gravel
Black Gravel7.21961HD
Tensions arise when a US military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.
- 1978
Foreigners. Part IV. Iranians
Foreigners. Part IV. Iranians01978HD
Second documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden
- 1973
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene5.41973HD
This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals...
- 2022
The Open View
The Open View02022HD
The film presents artists from the Sinti and Roma minority who shape the trauma of persecution and very personal experiences in their works.
- 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...
- 1981
Is Peace Anti-Constitutional?
Is Peace Anti-Constitutional?01981HD
Rarely screened documentary on West-German anti-communism and the Deutsches Friedenunion [The German Peace Union]. Made in collaboration with...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.”...
- 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...
- 1976
Foreigners Pt. 1: Ships and Cannons
Foreigners Pt. 1: Ships and Cannons01976HD
"Nestler relates the histories of shipbuilding, armaments, and war in Europe to the exploitation of labor and the circulation of knowledge and...
- 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...