Peter Nestler Movies

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

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

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

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

The film presents artists from the Sinti and Roma minority who shape the trauma of persecution and very personal experiences in their works.

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

Essay film about the origins of war in human history.

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

A short film about a wicker weaver in Budapest.

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...

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

Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.

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

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

Nestler highlights visits by several German entrepreneurs to oil facilities. In the 1970s, Peter and his wife, Zsóka Nestler, collaborated on...

Jewish painter Leopold Mayer fled his native Frankfurt at the rise of the Nazi regime. Although briefly finding refuge in France, where he changed...

The film consists of a staged discussion between Greek political refugees in Sweden. Dialogue is mainly in Greek, but the first few minutes shows one...

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

Humanity’s thirst for knowledge and its consequences, from the Bible to the A-bomb. Nestler uses sixteenth-century engravings and paintings by...

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