2010
7.3 (128 votes)
1h 34m
Official Website
Genres
Documentary
Production Companies
Studio Babelsberg
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, Nick N. Raslan, Carl Woebcken
Director of Photography: Alexey Matveev, Gleb Stepanov
Director: Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov
Writer: Rudolph Herzog, Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov
Top Cast
Videos
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga - Official Trailer
