The Open View (2022)
The film presents artists from the Sinti and Roma minority who shape the trauma of persecution and very personal experiences in their works. ...
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Peter Nestler is associated with: The Open View
The film presents artists from the Sinti and Roma minority who shape the trauma of persecution and very personal experiences in their works. ...
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In 1950, Picasso was offered a room that had once been used as a chapel in his hometown of Vallauris. He pictured turning it into a "pagan site for a unique cult" that would "unite all the people and be dedicated to peace. ...
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"Don't be scared," he'd whisper, "There's nothing to be scared of. It's just the hollow people." Peter Nestler has made a film based on Israeli author and scriptwriter Etgar Keret's short story "The Hollow Men". a man's memories of his childhood, marked by ...
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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 grandfather. ...
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A hommage to Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's film Quei loro incontri (2005), and to their access to cinema itself. In various encounters and conversations Nestler offers an insight into their life and work, including passages from Italian poet C ...
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Peter Nestler portrays the everyday life of two young music students from Budapest who are trying to balance their family life, which is shaped by Roma traditions, with their academic education at music school. Brigitta, 12, and Tünde Máko, 10, live with ...
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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 esca ...
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Jewish painter Leopold Mayer fled his native Frankfurt at the rise of the Nazi regime. Although briefly finding refuge in France, where he changed his name to Leo Maillet, his stay was cut short by Germany's invasion of Paris. Flucht traces Maillet's escap ...
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Today, the Römerstrasse in Italy's Aosta valley, is a significant traffic artery in the center of modern Europe. Nestler's journey explores the moving history of the Aosta valley, which passed through many hands - from the Roman Empire to Burgundian and F ...
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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 among de ...
Watch NowPeter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540. ...
Watch NowThe story begins on a hilltop, at an old castle that served as a German observation post in 1942. The traces of German fascism have also left their mark on this landscape. ...
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A film of Hungarian folk artists, sharing their handicrafts and paintings with the filmmakers. ...
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A documentary about the Sami people across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and about the environmental devastation in that area throughout the 20th century. ...
Watch NowDocumentary about the journey of a barge through East Germany. ...
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Nestler traces the history of Frankfurt's Jewish ghetto from the middle ages to the present day. ...
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A tribute to the victims of a mining disaster that happened in 1930 in Silesia before the reign of Nazi Germany. ...
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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. ...
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Still photography combined with moving imagery in this portrait of civic life in Chile. Made for Swedish public television almost a decade after the 1973 coup d'etat. ...
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Peter Nestler, an important German filmmaker with an extensive filmography, agrees with Chilean filmmaker Rodrigo Gonçalves, exiled in Sweden, to make a documentary on PIDEE (Protection of Children Harmed by the State of Emergency) and on FASIC, a Catholi ...
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Rarely screened two part documentary on the Swedish-Chilean folk music group Victor Jaras barn [Victor Jara's Children], formed by folk musician and researcher Mariella Ferreira. One of several films by Peter and Zsóka Nestler in the 1970's and 1980's on ...
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The film documents the activities of two human-rights organisations during the military dictatorship in Chile — PIDEE (Protección de la Infancia Dañada por el Estado de Emergencia) and FASIC (Fundación de Ayuda Social de las Iglesias Cristianas). ...
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Rarely screened documentary on West-German anti-communism and the Deutsches Friedenunion [The German Peace Union]. Made in collaboration with Kristian Romare and produced by SVT (Swedish Public Television). ...
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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 by these children. Nestlers inspiration comes from the book ...
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Peter Nestler's short focusses the works of four Chilean artists: two painters [Nicolas de la Cruz and Jorge Kuhn], a graphic designer [Rolando Pérez], and a guitar player [Adrián Miranda]. Together they show, without words, how they see their beautiful ...
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Documentary short made for Swedish public television (SVT) about the past and current situation for Native Americans in the US. The film was produced as an introduction to the American documentary Navajo Girl (Robert Young, 1973). Något om USA:s indianer ...
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Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden. ...
Watch NowSecond documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden. ...
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Stoff (1) is part of a series of films made for television and aimed at young audiences. The series was dedicated to the history and techniques behind the production of objects, materials (paper, letterpress, fabrics, etc.), highlighting the differences be ...
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Nestler highlights visits by several German entrepreneurs to oil facilities. In the 1970s, Peter and his wife, Zsóka Nestler, collaborated on a series of educational films for television that focused on craft-making. These "biographies of objects" are rig ...
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A reflection on the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet captured in its economic and social causalities. Originally shot for a TV youth program but canceled before broadcast. ...
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Filmed in Spain, Finland, Sweden, and West Germany, 'Spanien!' investigates ideas of internationalism and solidarity, using personal testimonies from former members of the International Brigades who joined the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War a ...
Watch NowAn emotional condemnation of the U.S.'s role in the war in North Vietnam, composed of photographs by Thomas Billhardt, this film depicts the dire living conditions and the suffering of children in the populations of destroyed villages. ...
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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 conditions caused by industrialization and exploitation by oil corporations. ...
Watch NowThe first part of a history about the history of paper. ...
Watch NowDocumentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany. ...
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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 of pe ...
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Peter and Zsóka Nestler collaborated on this film, an exploration of the working techniques involved in the process of glass-making. ...
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Filmed aboard a Hungarian ship, this is a journey upstream the Danube, recalling the vital role the majestic river played in the settlement and political evolution of central and south-eastern Europe. Bridges, locks, cities and mountain ranges float in fro ...
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This film is arguably Nestler's angriest documentary. It is a bitter personal statement about life in the Ruhr region: the fight against fascism, the reality of communism and his own struggle for acceptance in his native Germany. It confronts viewers with ...
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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 in Sweden are contradicted by the geopolitics of capitalist imperialism, in parti ...
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The film consists of a staged discussion between Greek political refugees in Sweden. Dialogue is mainly in Greek, but the first few minutes shows one of the participators giving some background to the political situation in Greece in Swedish. This historic ...
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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. ...
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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 us to ...
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A documentary of the town of Sheffield's main pub and the people who went there. ...
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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. ...
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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, cold st ...
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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. ...
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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 along the ...
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The film is based on the eponymous 1960 novel by author Peter Weiss. In this autobiographical text, the author describes the years of his childhood and youth in Germany in the 20s and 30s as well as the flight of his half-Jewish family from persecution by ...
Watch NowEthnologist 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 grandfather. ...
Watch NowA hommage to Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's film Quei loro incontri (2005), and to their access to cinema itself. In various encounters and conversations Nestler offers an insight into their life and work, including passages from Italian poet C ...
Watch NowInterview with Peter Nestler about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hübner ...
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Documentary that portrays Vincent van Gogh's live and work through his letters to his brother Theo. ...
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The film develops 5 questions about documentary film against the background of the media-political situation of the early 1970s in West Germany. The following topics are developed: (1) the personal approach of filmmaker Klaus Wildenhahn to his profession; ...
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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. ...
Watch NowThe burial of an old woman leads to several complications among family and friends. ...
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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. ...
Watch NowIn 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 kingdom ...
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Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany. ...
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A large German city at the beginning of the 1960s. This is where the well-to-do Berger family lives. Outwardly a bourgeois idyll, but behind the scenes the family is in turmoil. The relationship between father and son in particular is extremely tense. Mart ...
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1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as "Schinderhannes", who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners who exploit poor farmers in the Hunsrück region during the Napoleonic Wars. ...
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