Direction: Peter Nestler

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Peter Nestler. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Mülheim/Ruhr (S)

1964 · Documentary · 14 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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...

7.8

32 votes

7.8

32 votes

Essays (S)

1963 · Documentary · 10 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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...

7.3

23 votes

7.3

23 votes

By the Dike Sluice (S)

1962 · Documentary · 13 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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...

7.0

30 votes

7.0

30 votes

Fos-Sur-Mer (S)

1972 · Documentary · 24 min. · Sweden

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...

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Unrecht und Widerstand

2022 · Documentary · 113 min. · Germany

Direction Peter Nestler

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Die Hohlmenschen (S)

2015 · Movie · 5 min. · Germany

Direction Peter Nestler

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Rhine River (S)

1966 · Documentary · 13 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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...

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Die Nordkalotte (TV)

1991 · Documentary · 90 min. · Germany

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...

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Ödenwaldstetten

1964 · Documentary · 36 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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...

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Verteidigung der Zeit (TV) (S)

2007 · Documentary · 25 min. · Germany

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...

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Tod und Teufel

2009 · Documentary · 56 min. · Germany

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...

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How to Make Glass (Manually)

1970 · Documentary · 34 min. · Sweden

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.

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Uppför Donau (TV)

1970 · Documentary · 28 min. · Sweden

Direction Peter Nestler

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Chile 1974 (TV)

1974 · Documentary · 42 min. · Sweden

Direction Peter Nestler

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Die Römerstraße im Aostatal (TV)

1998 · Documentary · 92 min. · Germany

Direction Peter Nestler

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Spanien! (TV)

1973 · Documentary · 43 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Peter Nestler

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Mit der Musik groß werden (TV)

2003 · Documentary · min. · Germany

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Hur gör man glas? (Maskinell) (TV) (S)

1970 · Documentary · 24 min. · Sweden

Direction Peter Nestler

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Pachamama - Unsere Erde (TV)

1997 · Documentary · 90 min. · Germany

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...

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Hiroshima (S)

1981 · Documentary · 4 min. · Sweden

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...

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