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

7.3
2010
1h 34m
HD
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.

Top Cast

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

Narrator (voice)

G

Gennady Soloviev

Self - Trapper #1

A

Anatoly Blumei

Self - Trapper #2

G

Gennady Tiganov

Self - Native Boat Builder

M

Mikhail Tarkovsky

Self - Trapper #3

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