Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)

7.3 94 min Movie
Documentary

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

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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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

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