Peter Nestler Movies

Documentary short made for Swedish public television (SVT) about the past and current situation for Native Americans in the US. The film was produced...

The first part of a history about the history of paper.

The film documents the activities of two human-rights organisations during the military dictatorship in Chile — PIDEE (Protección de la...

Still photography combined with moving imagery in this portrait of civic life in Chile. Made for Swedish public television almost a decade after the...

Jewish painter Leopold Mayer fled his native Frankfurt at the rise of the Nazi regime. Although briefly finding refuge in France, where he changed...

Ethnologist and adventurer, Count Eric von Rosen was a man of contradictions: interested in the natives of Africa and colonial racism. Nestler...

In the 1970's Peter and Zsóka Nestler made several educational documentaries on industrial production for Swedish public television. The...

A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden.

Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany.

Essay film about the origins of war in human history.

Filmed aboard a Hungarian ship, this is a journey upstream the Danube, recalling the vital role the majestic river played in the settlement and...

Humanity’s thirst for knowledge and its consequences, from the Bible to the A-bomb. Nestler uses sixteenth-century engravings and paintings by...

How to Make Glass (Mechanically) is part of a series of educational films for television intended for young audiences. Directed by Peter and...

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...

This work produced by Swedish television, where Swedish kids reads texts written by Japanese kids about their experiencing of and surviving the...

Shot in the commercial harbor of Fos-sur-Mer in Southern France, this film denounces the destruction of the region and the poor living and working...

Rarely screened documentary on West-German anti-communism and the Deutsches Friedenunion [The German Peace Union]. Made in collaboration with...

A documentary about the Sami people across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and about the environmental devastation in that area throughout the...

Peter and Zsóka Nestler collaborated on this film, an exploration of the working techniques involved in the process of glass-making.