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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

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

20107.31h 34m

Overview

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.

Directed by Werner Herzog
Written by Rudolph Herzog, Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov
Produced by Christoph Fisser, Nick N. Raslan, Carl Woebcken
Box Office0Revenue: $339K

Top Cast

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

Narrator (voice)

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Gennady Soloviev

Self - Trapper #1

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Anatoly Blumei

Self - Trapper #2

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Gennady Tiganov

Self - Native Boat Builder

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Mikhail Tarkovsky

Self - Trapper #3

Themes & Keywords

remotenesswildernessbased on true storysnowdog sledsiberia

About Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga is a documentary film released in 2010 exploring themes of remoteness, wilderness, based on true story, snow, dog sled, siberia. Directed by Werner Herzog, it stars Werner Herzog, Gennady Soloviev, Anatoly Blumei. 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.

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