Peter Nestler Movies

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

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

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

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...

Peter Nestler, an important German filmmaker with an extensive filmography, agrees with Chilean filmmaker Rodrigo Gonçalves, exiled in Sweden,...

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

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

Second documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

The story begins on a hilltop, at an old castle that served as a German observation post in 1942. The traces of German fascism have also left their...

Stoff (1) is part of a series of films made for television and aimed at young audiences. The series was dedicated to the history and techniques...

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

Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden.

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

A short film about a wicker weaver in Budapest.