Peter Nestler Movies

Today, the Römerstrasse in Italy's Aosta valley, is a significant traffic artery in the center of modern Europe. Nestler's journey explores 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...

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

With the help of drawings, Nestler provides a historical overview of the types of work associated with industries that are crucial to Scandinavia,...

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

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

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...

Essay film about the origins of war in human history.

Documentary short made for Swedish public television (SVT) about the past and current situation for Native Americans in the US. The film was produced...

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

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

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...

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

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

A short film about a wicker weaver in Budapest.

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

Stoff (1) is part of a series of films made for television and aimed at young audiences. The series was dedicated to the history and techniques...

Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany.

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