Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Documentary

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010
94 min
7.3
72.6%
User Score
(134 votes)

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

Timur Bekmambetov

STARRING

Werner Herzog, Gennady Soloviev, Anatoly Blumei, Gennady Tiganov, Mikhail Tarkovsky

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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga - Official Trailer
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga - Official Trailer

Cast

Werner Herzog

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