Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
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(129 votes)
2010
1h 34m
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.

Production

Studio Babelsberg

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

More Like This

The Living Desert
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
The Sanctity of Space
Encounters at the End of the World
A Global Warning?
Tripping with Zhirinovsky
After the Blizzard
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Nanook of the North
March of the Penguins
Blindsight
Iceland You Think You're Alone