Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
“The director of Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Grizzly Man takes you on an epic journey into the heart of the Siberian wilderness”
2010•NR•1h 34m•7.3•Released
Documentary
In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists in the village over a period of a year. The natives, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions.
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov, Rudolph Herzog
Revenue
$0M
Languages
Russian, English
Studio
Studio Babelsberg
Cast
Werner Herzog
Narrator (voice)
Gennady Soloviev
Self - Trapper #1
Anatoly Blumei
Self - Trapper #2
Gennady Tiganov
Self - Native Boat Builder
Mikhail Tarkovsky
Self - Trapper #3
Production
Company
Studio Babelsberg
Producer
Christoph Fisser
Producer
Carl Woebcken
Producer
Nick N. Raslan
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