Peter Nestler Movies

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.

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

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

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

A large German city at the beginning of the 1960s. This is where the well-to-do Berger family lives. Outwardly a bourgeois idyll, but behind the...

The film develops 5 questions about documentary film against the background of the media-political situation of the early 1970s in West Germany. The...

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 about empty space in Berlin

Documentary that portrays Vincent van Gogh's live and work through his letters to his brother Theo.

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

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

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

This film is less about the birth of printing in medieval Germany, than about the effect it has had on social life and human relations. On the one...

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...

A hommage to Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's film Quei loro incontri (2005), and to their access to cinema itself. In various...

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

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...

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...

How to Make Glass (Mechanically) is part of a series of educational films for television intended for young audiences. Directed by Peter and...