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.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Portrait of a small south German village and its residents in the early sixties. Rural culture is undergoing a transformation caused by the intrusion...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

In the 1970's Peter and Zsóka Nestler made several educational documentaries on industrial production for Swedish public television. The...

Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.

Peter Nestler portrays the everyday life of two young music students from Budapest who are trying to balance their family life, which is shaped by...

The film documents the activities of two human-rights organisations during the military dictatorship in Chile — PIDEE (Protección de la...