Peter Nestler Movies

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

Shot in the commercial harbor of Fos-sur-Mer in Southern France, this film denounces the destruction of the region and the poor living and working...

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

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...

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

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...

This film is less about the birth of printing in medieval Germany, than about the effect it has had on social life and human relations. On the one...

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

Essay film about the origins of war in human history.

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

Peter and Zsóka Nestler collaborated on this film, an exploration of the working techniques involved in the process of glass-making.