Pachamama – Unsere Erde
Restored by the Deutsche Kinemathek, presented by Julia Wallmüller, Head of Digitisation and Restoration.
Peter Nestler’s visually stunning journey through Ecuador begins in the capital, Quito, and ends in an urban landscape far from the city. He follows in the footsteps of the indigenous people and the working class struggling to survive. Traces of the past intertwine with the present to create a beautiful portrait of a country with a society of contrasts.
Le restorator – La Deutsche Kinemathek : Film Heritage Department
The Deutsche Kinemathek is one of Europe’s leading institutions for audiovisual heritage. Since 2025, it has been at its new location, the E-Werk in Berlin-Mitte, while the planning of a new film house continues. The Kinemathek’s programme will continue in this temporary location and will include established formats and new concepts that offer fascinating insights into film and television culture.
The Kinemathek supports the exploration of the moving image with a diverse educational and event programme. Its archives and specialist library are central points of contact for research and science, and will remain accessible. The film distribution library, which lists some 20,000 titles, continues to be an important part of the cinema library, alongside film series and festivals.
In 2023, PACHAMAMA was digitised and restored in 2K resolution on behalf of Deutsche Kinemathek at PHAROS – The Post Group based on the 16 mm original negative. The Digitisation was funded by the German film heritage program.
Peter Nestler
Peter Nestler, born in Freiburg im Breisgau on 1 June 1937, is one of the most unique and important documentary filmmakers to emerge from post-war Germany. In the early 1960s, Nestler made a series of poetic films about the changing realities of rural, industrial and working-class communities, mostly in Germany but also in other countries. Opposition to his political views and film aesthetics led Nestler to Sweden, where he worked mainly for television. Since the 1970s, Nestler has made an extraordinary body of work, expanding the form and themes of his early films to include history, the working class, anti-fascism, the history of labour and production, and immigration. His most recent work, Unrecht und Widerstand (2021/2022), which won the prestigious Grimme Prize, focuses on the various forms of resistance by German Sinti and Roma over eight decades.
Strandfilm Produktions GmbH, Hessischer Rundfunk, Südwestfunk
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen Film Heritage Department
Julia Wallmüller jwallmueller@deutsche-kinemathek.de Diana Kluge filmverleih@deutsche-kineemathek.de
Digitisation and restoration done
May 2024
