Peter Nestler Movies
- 1981
Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?
Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?5.51981HD
This work produced by Swedish television, where Swedish kids reads texts written by Japanese kids about their experiencing of and surviving the...
- 1996
Hararna fångar och steker jägaren
Hararna fångar och steker jägaren01996HD
Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.
- 1971
Får de komma igen? Om nyfascistica tendenser i Västtyskland
Får de komma igen? Om nyfascistica tendenser i Västtyskland01971HD
Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany
- 2002
Die Verwandlung des guten Nachbarn
Die Verwandlung des guten Nachbarn02002HD
The revolt at Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943 is a central episode of resistance against national socialism. Thomas...
- 1964
Ödenwaldstetten
Ödenwaldstetten6.21964HD
Portrait of a small south German village and its residents in the early sixties. Rural culture is undergoing a transformation caused by the intrusion...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1963
Essays
Essays7.21963HD
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1988
The Jewish Lane
The Jewish Lane01988HD
Nestler traces the history of Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto from the middle ages to the present day.
- 1968
Sightseeing
Sightseeing01968HD
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...
- 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...
- 1970
Being Gypsy
Being Gypsy5.71970HD
Roma and Sinti people talk about their experiences in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany, inspired by Otto Pankok’s paintings...
- 2021
Picasso in Vallauris
Picasso in Vallauris62021HD
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...
- 1968
Röster från Ruhr
Röster från Ruhr01968HD
This film is arguably Nestler's angriest documentary. It is a bitter personal statement about life in the Ruhr region: the fight against fascism, the...
- 1991
Am Rand
Am Rand01991HD
Documentary about empty space in Berlin
- 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...
- 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...
- 1970
Up the Danube
Up the Danube01970HD
Filmed aboard a Hungarian ship, this is a journey upstream the Danube, recalling the vital role the majestic river played in the settlement and...