Direction: 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

Direction Peter Nestler

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

Plot In "Die Nordkalotte", Peter Nestler shows the transition of space in Lapland after Chernobyl nuclear accident while he continues the shots of river and valley from the top of mountains...

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

Cast Jean-Marie Straub · Danièle Huillet · Peter Nestler · Ursula Illert

Plot Peter Nestler's poetic documentary Verteidigung der Zeit is not only an hommage to Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's film Quei loro incontri (2005), but also to their access to cinema...

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

Direction Peter Nestler

Direction Peter Nestler

Direction Peter Nestler · Zsóka Nestler

Direction Peter Nestler

Direction Peter Nestler

Plot Pachamama is another fine example of Peter Nestler’s extraordinary documentaries. He takes us on an expedition to Ecuador, to the heart of an ancient Indian culture. Although heavily damaged by...

Direction Peter Nestler

Plot 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...