Peter Nestler Movies
- 1961
Black Gravel
Black Gravel71961HD
Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.
- 1963
The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle
The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle6.21963HD
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.
- 1961
Und sowas nennt sich Leben
Und sowas nennt sich Leben71961HD
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...
- 1973
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene5.51973HD
This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals...
- 1958
Der Schinderhannes
Der Schinderhannes6.81958HD
1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and...
- 2002
Die Verwandlung des guten Nachbarn
Die Verwandlung des guten Nachbarn02002HD
The revolt at Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943 is a central episode of resistance against national socialism. Thomas...
- 1966
Abschied
Abschied01966HD
The burial of an old woman leads to several complications among family and friends.
- 1963
Essays
Essays7.21963HD
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...
- 2015
The Hollow People
The Hollow People02015HD
“Don’t be scared,” he’d whisper, “There’s nothing to be scared of. It’s just the hollow people.”...
- 1968
Sightseeing
Sightseeing01968HD
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...
- 1981
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...
- 1970
Being Gypsy
Being Gypsy5.71970HD
Roma and Sinti people talk about their experiences in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany, inspired by Otto Pankok’s paintings...
- 1991
Am Rand
Am Rand01991HD
Documentary about empty space in Berlin
- 1991
Die Reise der Ida Irma nach Lunow
Die Reise der Ida Irma nach Lunow01991HD
Documentary about the journey of a barge through East Germany.
- 1966
From Greece
From Greece7.61966HD
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...
- 1997
Pachamama: Our Land
Pachamama: Our Land7.31997HD
“This film is about the indigenous cultures of Ecuador, of what is past and what is preserved, of destruction and resistance, of persisting in...
- 2021
Picasso in Vallauris
Picasso in Vallauris62021HD
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...
- 2022
The Open View
The Open View02022HD
The film presents artists from the Sinti and Roma minority who shape the trauma of persecution and very personal experiences in their works.
- 2009
Death and the Devil
Death and the Devil52009HD
Ethnologist and adventurer, Count Eric von Rosen was a man of contradictions: interested in the natives of Africa and colonial racism. Nestler...
- 1974
5 Bemerkungen zum Dokumentarfilm
5 Bemerkungen zum Dokumentarfilm01974HD
The film develops 5 questions about documentary film against the background of the media-political situation of the early 1970s in West Germany. The...