Movies: Peter Nestler

  • 1963
    The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

    The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963)

    The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

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    A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them....

    The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle
  • 1961
    Und sowas nennt sich Leben

    Und sowas nennt sich Leben (1961)

    Und sowas nennt sich Leben

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    Und sowas nennt sich Leben
  • 1958
    Der Schinderhannes

    Der Schinderhannes (1958)

    Der Schinderhannes

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    1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners who exploit poor farmers in the Hunsrück region during the Napoleonic Wars....

    Der Schinderhannes
  • 1961
    Black Gravel

    Black Gravel (1961)

    Black Gravel

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    Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany....

    Black Gravel
  • 1966
    Abschied

    Abschied (1966)

    Abschied

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

    Abschied
  • 1991
    Am Rand

    Am Rand (1991)

    Am Rand

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    Documentary about empty space in Berlin...

    Am Rand
  • 1966
    Rhine River

    Rhine River (1966)

    Rhine River

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    In a 13-minute navigation, Nestler takes us downstream the Rhine River. The opportunity of cheap water transport kept prices of raw material down and made the Rhine one of the most important arteries of industrial transport in the world....

    Rhine River
  • 2009
    Death and the Devil

    Death and the Devil (2009)

    Death and the Devil

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    Ethnologist and adventurer, Count Eric von Rosen was a man of contradictions: interested in the natives of Africa and colonial racism. Nestler embarks on a journey in search of his grandfather....

    Death and the Devil
  • 2015
    The Hollow People

    The Hollow People (2015)

    The Hollow People

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    “Don’t be scared,” he’d whisper, “There’s nothing to be scared of. It’s just the hollow people.” Peter Nestler has made a film based on Israeli author and scriptwriter Etgar Keret’s short story “The Hollow Men”. a man’s memories of his childhood, mar...

    The Hollow People
  • 1966
    From Greece

    From Greece (1966)

    From Greece

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    The first part of this film is devoted to the Greek resistance against fascism and the civil war for independence. While the voice-over recites facts and names, photos take us into the past and the everyday lives of the people. The second part takes ...

    From Greece
  • 2022
    The Open View

    The Open View (2022)

    The Open View

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

    The Open View
  • 2022
    Injustice and Resistance

    Injustice and Resistance (2022)

    Injustice and Resistance

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    For more than eight decades, German Sinti and Roma experienced injustice. The film tells of the family of activist Romani Rose, their resistance and insistence on justice. The painful story of a minority between trauma and self-assertion. The two-pa...

    Injustice and Resistance
  • 2021
    Picasso in Vallauris

    Picasso in Vallauris (2021)

    Picasso in Vallauris

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    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 for a unique cult” that would “unite all the people and be dedicated to peace.”...

    Picasso in Vallauris
  • 1968
    Sightseeing

    Sightseeing (1968)

    Sightseeing

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    A short pamphlet based on a text by Peter Weiss and on the contrapuntal use of the relation between image and sound. The commercial activities and fantasies linked to tourism in Sweden are contradicted by the geopolitics of capitalist imperialism, in...

    Sightseeing
  • 1973
    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene (1973)

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

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    This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals with emerging fascism and the persecution of Jews, as well as with their historical continuities....

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
  • 1963
    Essays

    Essays (1963)

    Essays

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    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 the long walk to school, the distribution of milk during breaks, and a brawl in the courtyard....

    Essays
  • 1996
    Hararna fångar och steker jägaren

    Hararna fångar och steker jägaren (1996)

    Hararna fångar och steker jägaren

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    Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540....

    Hararna fångar och steker jägaren
  • 1963
    By the Dike Sluice

    By the Dike Sluice (1963)

    By the Dike Sluice

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    In his first film, Peter Nestler gives voice to an old floodgate. A nearby village, its inhabitants, wooden posts and twisted willow rods are presented from this unusual perspective. The floodgate ponders the fisher boats coming home from the sea alo...

    By the Dike Sluice
  • 1981
    Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?

    Hiroshima - Ahead of Us? (1981)

    Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?

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    This work produced by Swedish television, where Swedish kids reads texts written by Japanese kids about their experiencing of and surviving the bombings. In the film we see images/drawings painted by these children. Nestlers inspiration comes from th...

    Hiroshima - Ahead of Us?
  • 2017
    Farewell to the Parents

    Farewell to the Parents (2017)

    Farewell to the Parents

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    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 and youth in Germany in the 20s and 30s as well as the flight of his half-Jewish family from persecuti...

    Farewell to the Parents