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.

A large German city at the beginning of the 1960s. This is where the well-to-do Berger family lives. Outwardly a bourgeois idyll, but behind the...

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

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

1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and...

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...

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

Peter Nestler portrays the everyday life of two young music students from Budapest who are trying to balance their family life, which is shaped by...

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

Interview with Peter Nestler about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hübner

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

The first part of a history about the history of paper.

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

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...

Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.

In this tale based on a Brothers Grimm story, Prince Alfred searches for an enchanted castle that holds a magic fountain whose waters can cure his...

Peter Nestler's short focusses the works of four Chilean artists: two painters [Nicolas de la Cruz and Jorge Kuhn], a graphic designer [Rolando...

Peter and Zsóka Nestler collaborated on this film, an exploration of the working techniques involved in the process of glass-making.

For more than eight decades, German Sinti and Roma experienced injustice. The film tells of the family of activist Romani Rose, their resistance and...

Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden.