Huge glaciers, icebergs swimming in the sea and northern lights: Greenland is the largest island in the world with a heart of ice. Greenland’s ice cap is 1,7 millions square km in size and up to three km thick – huge ice cube that rules weather, climate and living conditions of flora and fauna. The film shows how animals make their life in Greenland’s extraordinary environment. The Northeast Greenland National Park is the largest National Park in the world, empire of polar bear, musk ox and walrus. Millions of little auks breed on Greenland’s coastlines every year – a unique wonder of nature.
Born in 1962 in Wolfenbüttel, Uwe Anders went to university in Brauschweig, completing his biology studies (zoology/ecology) with an extreme slow-motion analysis of the courtship flights of demoiselle dragonflies. Since 1992, Uwe Anders has been working as a nature documentary film-maker for among others the Institute for Scientific Film in Göttingen, the German public TV channel ZDF and since 1996 mainly for NDR/NDR Naturfilm. Uwe Anders is married and has two children.