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SALZBURG, TASIILAQ (SN). Hubert von Goisern kneads his fingers. Cameraman Hennig Brümmer rubs his hands. Neither accordion nor camera work with cold hands. And it's cold. The sun makes no difference either. The wind is blowing so gently across the frozen ground that it sticks to the skin. Director Chris Weisz has it better. His hands are in gloves and in his jacket pockets. "We'll do that again", he says. The sound of the accordion goes beyond into the solitude of the Greenlandic ice and remains the only human character in the white zone that swallows people. "Hubert is unique, boulder", says Robert Peroni. He is one too. The South Tyrolean has lived in Tasiilaq in East Greenland since 1983. He runs a small hotel in which he employs only locals. He was once the first to cross the island on foot. He stayed because he wanted to do something for the people on the edge of ruin.
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