Peter Nestler was born in 1937 in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, and grew up in Bavaria. In 1955 he went to sea as a sailor to avoid military service. In 1959 he studied painting, and soon afterwards began making films in West Germany, where he married Zsóka Nestler in Hungary before moving to Sweden. He first worked as an independent filmmaker, then spent thirty years employed by Swedish television, during which time he continued to make films (often with Zsóka) and acquired and edited children’s films from around the world. Since 2002 he has again worked freelance. He is currently preparing the film Widerstand (Resistance).
