Peter Nestler Movies

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

Ethnologist and adventurer, Count Eric von Rosen was a man of contradictions: interested in the natives of Africa and colonial racism. Nestler...

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

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...

Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden.

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...

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...

A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

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

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

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

Still photography combined with moving imagery in this portrait of civic life in Chile. Made for Swedish public television almost a decade after the...

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

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

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

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

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

The story begins on a hilltop, at an old castle that served as a German observation post in 1942. The traces of German fascism have also left their...

Shot in the commercial harbor of Fos-sur-Mer in Southern France, this film denounces the destruction of the region and the poor living and working...

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