Peter Nestler Movies

A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

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

The first part of a history about the history of paper.

Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany.

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

In his first film, Peter Nestler gives voice to an old floodgate. A nearby village, its inhabitants, wooden posts and twisted willow rods are...

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 reflection on the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet captured in its economic and social causalities. Originally shot for a TV youth program but...

A film of Hungarian folk artists, sharing their handicrafts and paintings with the filmmakers.

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

Portrait of a small south German village and its residents in the early sixties. Rural culture is undergoing a transformation caused by the intrusion...

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...

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

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

A contribution from the documentary film cycle about the invention and development of certain work techniques, production processes and materials.

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...

This film is arguably Nestler's angriest documentary. It is a bitter personal statement about life in the Ruhr region: the fight against fascism, the...

Rarely screened two part documentary on the Swedish-Chilean folk music group Victor Jaras barn [Victor Jara's Children], formed by folk musician and...

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