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.

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

Tensions arise when a US military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

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...

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...

In his first film, Peter Nestler gives voice to an old floodgate. A nearby village, its inhabitants, wooden posts and twisted willow rods are...

A film of Hungarian folk artists, sharing their handicrafts and paintings with the filmmakers.

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

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...

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

Filmed in Spain, Finland, Sweden, and West Germany, 'Spanien!' investigates ideas of internationalism and solidarity, using personal testimonies from...

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

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

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

Nestler traces the history of Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto from the middle ages to the present day.

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...

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