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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)

1h 34m | PG-13

⭐ 7.266 / 10

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

Studio: Studio Babelsberg

Genre: Documentary

Video: 720p

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Cast

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

as Narrator (voice)

Gennady Soloviev

Gennady Soloviev

as Self - Trapper #1

Anatoly Blumei

Anatoly Blumei

as Self - Trapper #2

Gennady Tiganov

Gennady Tiganov

as Self - Native Boat Builder

Mikhail Tarkovsky

Mikhail Tarkovsky

as Self - Trapper #3