Film · Documentary
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
★ 7.3 · 142 votes1 h 34 minDocumentary2010
The director of Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Grizzly Man takes you on an epic journey into the heart of the Siberian wilderness
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, Dmitry Vasyukov
- Writers
- Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov, Rudolph Herzog
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- English
- Release date
- September 3, 2010
Cast
Werner HerzogNarrator (voice)- Gennady SolovievSelf - Trapper #1
- Anatoly BlumeiSelf - Trapper #2
- Gennady TiganovSelf - Native Boat Builder
- Mikhail TarkovskySelf - Trapper #3
