Cinematography: Peter Nestler

Direction Peter Nestler

Plot Shot a few years after the first mining pits were closed in the Ruhr area, Nestler takes his audience on a journey through mining pits, coal heaps, cold stores and...

Direction Peter Nestler

Plot A cheerful take on the lives of school children in a Swiss rural environment. Young pupils recite short essays they have written on subjects ranging from the long walk to...

Direction Peter Nestler

Cast Robert Wolfgang Schnell

Plot In his first documentary, Nestler uses a rather unconventional way of telling the story of a small Northern German seaside village. The protagonist and narrator is an old, worn-out dike...

Direction Peter Nestler · Zsêka Nestler

Plot The city of Marseille, close to the estuary of the Rhône River, has long been recognized as an important transit port for all of Europe. Nestler’s film is set against...

Direction Peter Nestler

Cast Robert Wolfgang Schnell

Plot 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...

Direction Peter Nestler

Cast Carl Ebert

Plot Nestler once more provides a critical view of the rise of the machine age. He uses the small village of Ödenwaldstetten as an example of the changes from manpower to...

Direction Peter Nestler

Plot 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...

Direction Peter Nestler · Zsóka Nestler

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

Direction Peter Nestler

Direction Peter Nestler

Plot 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...

Direction Peter Nestler

Plot 1930: An eruption of carbon dioxide gas in the Wenzelslaus mine in Lower Silesia. The miners are endangered due to inadequate work safety measures.

Direction Peter Nestler

Direction Peter Nestler

Plot The film is dedicated to the Roma, more commonly known throughout history as gypsies. Using paintings by German artist Otto Pankok, who lived among Roma in the 1930s, the film...

Direction Peter Nestler