Peter Nestler Movies

  • 1961
    Black Gravel

    Black Gravel

    Black Gravel

    71961HD

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

    Black Gravel
  • 1963
    The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

    The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

    The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

    6.21963HD

    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.

    The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle
  • 1961
    Und sowas nennt sich Leben

    Und sowas nennt sich Leben

    Und sowas nennt sich Leben

    71961HD

    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...

    Und sowas nennt sich Leben
  • 1973
    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    5.51973HD

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

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
  • 1958
    Der Schinderhannes

    Der Schinderhannes

    Der Schinderhannes

    6.81958HD

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

    Der Schinderhannes
  • 2002
    Die Verwandlung des guten Nachbarn

    Die Verwandlung des guten Nachbarn

    Die Verwandlung des guten Nachbarn

    02002HD

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

    Die Verwandlung des guten Nachbarn
  • 1966
    Abschied

    Abschied

    Abschied

    01966HD

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

    Abschied
  • 1963
    Essays

    Essays

    Essays

    7.21963HD

    A cheerful take on the lives of school children in a Swiss rural environment. Young pupils recite short essays they have written on subjects such as...

    Essays
  • 2015
    The Hollow People

    The Hollow People

    The Hollow People

    02015HD

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

    The Hollow People
  • 1968
    Sightseeing

    Sightseeing

    Sightseeing

    01968HD

    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...

    Sightseeing
  • 1981
    Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?

    Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?

    Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?

    5.51981HD

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

    Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?
  • 1970
    Being Gypsy

    Being Gypsy

    Being Gypsy

    5.71970HD

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

    Being Gypsy
  • 1991
    Am Rand

    Am Rand

    Am Rand

    01991HD

    Documentary about empty space in Berlin

    Am Rand
  • 1991
    Die Reise der Ida Irma nach Lunow

    Die Reise der Ida Irma nach Lunow

    Die Reise der Ida Irma nach Lunow

    01991HD

    Documentary about the journey of a barge through East Germany.

    Die Reise der Ida Irma nach Lunow
  • 1966
    From Greece

    From Greece

    From Greece

    7.61966HD

    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...

    From Greece
  • 1997
    Pachamama: Our Land

    Pachamama: Our Land

    Pachamama: Our Land

    7.31997HD

    “This film is about the indigenous cultures of Ecuador, of what is past and what is preserved, of destruction and resistance, of persisting in...

    Pachamama: Our Land
  • 2021
    Picasso in Vallauris

    Picasso in Vallauris

    Picasso in Vallauris

    62021HD

    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...

    Picasso in Vallauris
  • 2022
    The Open View

    The Open View

    The Open View

    02022HD

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

    The Open View
  • 2009
    Death and the Devil

    Death and the Devil

    Death and the Devil

    52009HD

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

    Death and the Devil
  • 1974
    5 Bemerkungen zum Dokumentarfilm

    5 Bemerkungen zum Dokumentarfilm

    5 Bemerkungen zum Dokumentarfilm

    01974HD

    The film develops 5 questions about documentary film against the background of the media-political situation of the early 1970s in West Germany. The...

    5 Bemerkungen zum Dokumentarfilm