Peter Nestler Movies

A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

Peter Nestler, an important German filmmaker with an extensive filmography, agrees with Chilean filmmaker Rodrigo Gonçalves, exiled in Sweden,...

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

An emotional condemnation of the U.S.’s role in the war in North Vietnam, composed of photographs by Thomas Billhardt, this film depicts the...

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...

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

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

Essay film about the origins of war in human history.

Second documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden.

Rarely screened two part documentary on the Swedish-Chilean folk music group Victor Jaras barn [Victor Jara's Children], formed by folk musician and...

A contribution from the documentary film cycle about the invention and development of certain work techniques, production processes and materials.

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

This work produced by Swedish television, where Swedish kids reads texts written by Japanese kids about their experiencing of and surviving the...

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

Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden.

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

Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany.

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...

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