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.

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

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

Greker i Sverige [Greeks in Sweden] consists of a staged discussion between Greek political refugees in Sweden. Dialogue is mainly in Greek, but the...

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

This is the first part of a history about the history of paper.

A documentary about the Sami people across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and about the environmental devastation in that area throughout the...

Essay film about the origins of war in human history

Second documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden

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

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

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

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...

A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

The film is based on the eponymous 1960 novel by author Peter Weiss. In this autobiographical text, the author describes the years of his childhood...

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

Roma and Sinti people talk about their experiences in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany, inspired by Otto Pankok’s paintings...

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

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