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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
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.
Key Crew
Producer: Christoph Fisser, Carl Woebcken, Nick N. Raslan
Director of Photography: Alexey Matveev, Gleb Stepanov
Writer: Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov, Rudolph Herzog
Director: Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov
Top Cast
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
Videos
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga - Official Trailer
