Peter Nestler Movies

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

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

A reflection on the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet captured in its economic and social causalities. Originally shot for a TV youth program but...

Today, the Römerstrasse in Italy's Aosta valley, is a significant traffic artery in the center of modern Europe. Nestler's journey explores 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...

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

Essay film about the origins of war in human history

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...

A documentary about the Sami people across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and about the environmental devastation in that area throughout the...

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...

Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany

Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.

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

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...

short film about a wicker weaver in Budapest

Rarely screened documentary on West-German anti-communism and the Deutsches Friedenunion [The German Peace Union]. Made in collaboration with...

"Nestler relates the histories of shipbuilding, armaments, and war in Europe to the exploitation of labor and the circulation of knowledge and...

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

Filmed aboard a Hungarian ship, this is a journey upstream the Danube, recalling the vital role the majestic river played in the settlement 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...