Peter Nestler Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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

"Nestler relates the histories of shipbuilding, armaments, and war in Europe to the exploitation of labor and the circulation of knowledge and...

Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany

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...

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

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.

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

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

short film about a wicker weaver in Budapest

Essay film about the origins of war in human history

Second documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden

Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden

A 1994 German language documentary written and directed by Peter Nestler.

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