Antarctica-projekt

Antarctica, the only continent on our planet that has not yet been colonized. The last piece of land where nature has not been violated by human acitivities. This virginity is in grave danger now that a number of countries claim a part of this territory which abounds in a variety of minerals and takes a strategically interesting position on the map of the earth. If Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and Great Britain are allowed to go ahead environmental pollution will set in here, too, and several species of animals will be threatened.
In 1984, the organization for environmental conservation Greenpeace decided to undertake a spectacular journey to Antarctica to found the first base of an organization of their kind on Antarctica, in the direct vicinity of the enormous American McMurdo Station, to direct the attention of the world to the threatened state this continent is in, and to symbolically declare the territory a protected world-park.
On 12 February 1986, the expedition had to break off its voyage owing to extremely bad weather conditions and attendant massive ice-packs. The subsequent year the journey did succeed.
The film maker Axel Engstfeld, indignant at the power-politics of countries that wish to conquer and ransack the last pieces of pure nature, took part in this expedition. In this film he takes the viewer along into the imposing scenery of Antarctica and, at the same time, he adds force to the protest of Greenpeace.