Utlänningar: Del I - Båtar och kanoner

"Nestler＇s films have a theme like a person has a head. It＇s about foreigners and it＇s about ships and cannons. Foreigners and ships have something to do with each other in trade, foreigners and cannons in war. Between trade and war the transitions are fluid, one can be the continuation of the other. The point where they meet is in the arms trade, where war needs trade and trade needs war." (Manfred Blank, Filmkritik No. 256, April 1978)