Movies: Peter Nestler
- 1963
The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963)
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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....
- 1961
Black Gravel (1961)
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Tensions rise when a US military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany....
- 1958
Der Schinderhannes (1958)
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- 1996
Hararna fångar och steker jägaren (1996)
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Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540....
- 1966
From Greece (1966)
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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 ...
- 1997
Pachamama: Our Land (1997)
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“This film is about the indigenous cultures of Ecuador, of what is past and what is preserved, of destruction and resistance, of persisting in new ways, of music in the villages high up in the Andes, of music in the cities and in a tropical climate a...
- 1963
By the Dike Sluice (1963)
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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...
- 1973
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene (1973)
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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....
- 1984
Dangerous Knowledge (1984)
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Humanity’s thirst for knowledge and its consequences, from the Bible to the A-bomb. Nestler uses sixteenth-century engravings and paintings by artists such as Dürer, Grünewald, Holbein the Younger, Hans Weiditz, Sebald Beham and Hans Baldung....
- 2022
The Open View (2022)
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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....
- 1963
Essays (1963)
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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....
- 1961
The Magic Fountain (1961)
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In this tale based on a Brothers Grimm story, Prince Alfred searches for an enchanted castle that holds a magic fountain whose waters can cure his seriously ill father, the king. His two evil brothers are determined to stop him so they can have the k...
- 2002
Die Verwandlung des guten Nachbarn (2002)
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The revolt at Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943 is a central episode of resistance against national socialism. Thomas «Toivi» Blatt, son of a Jewish businessman, was 15 when he was deported to Sobibór. Blatt was among those who managed to es...
- 1964
Ödenwaldstetten (1964)
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Portrait of a small south German village and its residents in the early sixties. Rural culture is undergoing a transformation caused by the intrusion of the industrial world. Gestures at work and words of its inhabitants....
- 1964
Mülheim on the Ruhr (1964)
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This dialogue-free short is edited to music and the rhythms of change in a small town in the Ruhr region, shot a few years after the first mining pits were closed in the area. Nestler takes his audience on a journey through mining pits, coal heaps, c...
- 1966
Abschied (1966)
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The burial of an old woman leads to several complications among family and friends....
- 1965
A Working Men's Club in Sheffield (1965)
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A documentary of the town of Sheffield's main pub and the people who went there....
- 2007
Verteidigung der Zeit (2007)
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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 itself. In various encounters and conversations Nestler of...
- 1970
Being Gypsy (1970)
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Roma and Sinti people talk about their experiences in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany, inspired by Otto Pankok’s paintings of Romani theme and subject in the 1930s, declared degenerate art by the Nazis. These are moving narratives...
- 1966
Rhine River (1966)
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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....