Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010
1h 34m
7.3

7.3/10

139 votes • View on IMDb

"The director of Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Grizzly Man takes you on an epic journey into the heart of the Siberian wilderness"

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.

Status: Released

Revenue: $338,987

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Studio Babelsberg
Production Countries
Germany
Spoken Languages
Russian English

Quick Facts

Release Date September 3, 2010
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt1683876
Website Visit Site

Cast

Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog

Narrator (voice)

Gennady Soloviev
Gennady Soloviev

Self - Trapper #1

Anatoly Blumei
Anatoly Blumei

Self - Trapper #2

Gennady Tiganov
Gennady Tiganov

Self - Native Boat Builder

Mikhail Tarkovsky
Mikhail Tarkovsky

Self - Trapper #3

Key Crew

Timur Bekmambetov
Executive Producer
Werner Herzog
Executive Producer
Klaus Badelt
Executive Producer
Christoph Fisser
Producer
Nick N. Raslan
Producer
Carl Woebcken
Producer
Dmitry Vasyukov
Writer
Rudolph Herzog
Writer