Sparks in New Greenland

Movie
Original title	Sparks in New Greenland
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1971
Rod
Director	Joachim Hess
script	Helga Feddersen
production	Dieter Meichsner ( North German Broadcasting )
camera	Igor Luther
cut	Inge P. Drestler
occupation
Robert Meyn : Father Spark Lisa Helwig : Mother Spark Erwin Wirschaz : Hans Spark Petra Fahrnlaender : Helga Spark Heidi Stroh : Gudi Schuetzer Klaus Lerm : Michael Schuetzer Werner Riepel : Rathmann family Christa Wehling : Rathmann family Kai Kahlert : Rathmann family Andrea Eschke : Rathmann family Rolf Nagel : Wuest family Brigitta Dresewski : Wuest family Gitta Zeidler : Wuest family Gerda Gmelin : Johanna Kompatzki Manfred Zapatka : Clemens Kompatzki Susanne Beck : Gerda Asfari Wolfgang Borchert : Mr. Pining Otto Kurth : Mr. Burzel

Sparks in New Greenland is a TV movie of Helga Feddersen from the year 1971 .

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Robert Meyn plays a quirky contemporary with a quirky sense of humor. Carl "Kuddel" Spark, a former merchant, has a pronounced tendency to thrift and a large portion of self-assertion and stubbornness.

With a heavy heart, at the urging of his family, he leaves his beloved urban space and moves from Hamburg to the suburban settlement of Neu-Grünland, which he calls "New Greenland" with undisguised antipathy. The pensioner observes the goings-on of his fellow human beings with curiosity and comments on the behavior of the neighbors with grumpy, apt jokes.

At the end, Carl Spark returns to his city apartment with his wife: "I am not an Eskimo and would rather drop dead under the traffic light when it is red than die here as a green widower."

Web links

• Sparks in New Greenland in the Internet Movie Database (English)