Peter Nestler Movies
- 1961
Black Gravel
Black Gravel7.21961HD
Tensions arise when a US military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.
- 1963
The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle
The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle6.0631963HD
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.
- 1973
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene5.41973HD
This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals...
- 2009
Death and the Devil
Death and the Devil52009HD
Ethnologist and adventurer, Count Eric von Rosen was a man of contradictions: interested in the natives of Africa and colonial racism. Nestler...
- 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...
- 1966
From Greece
From Greece7.61966HD
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...
- 1958
Der Schinderhannes
Der Schinderhannes7.81958HD
- 1966
Abschied
Abschied01966HD
The burial of an old woman leads to several complications among family and friends.
- 1963
By the Dike Sluice
By the Dike Sluice5.21963HD
In his first film, Peter Nestler gives voice to an old floodgate. A nearby village, its inhabitants, wooden posts and twisted willow rods are...
- 1964
Mülheim on the Ruhr
Mülheim on the Ruhr6.21964HD
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1996
Hararna fångar och steker jägaren
Hararna fångar och steker jägaren01996HD
Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.
- 1991
Am Rand
Am Rand01991HD
Documentary about empty space in Berlin
- 1966
Rhine River
Rhine River5.81966HD
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2022
Injustice and Resistance
Injustice and Resistance02022HD
For more than eight decades, German Sinti and Roma experienced injustice. The film tells of the family of activist Romani Rose, their resistance and...
- 2015
The Hollow People
The Hollow People02015HD
“Don’t be scared,” he’d whisper, “There’s nothing to be scared of. It’s just the hollow people.”...