Peter Nestler Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

For more than eight decades, German Sinti and Roma experienced injustice. The film tells of the family of activist Romani Rose, their resistance and...

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

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...

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

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...

Jewish painter Leopold Mayer fled his native Frankfurt at the rise of the Nazi regime. Although briefly finding refuge in France, where he changed...

Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany

Second documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden

Filmed aboard a Hungarian ship, this is a journey upstream the Danube, recalling the vital role the majestic river played in the settlement and...

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

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

Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden