Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Film

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

7.320101h 34mNRDocumentary
Germany
Age rating
NR
Director
Werner Herzog
Year
2010

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.

Top cast

Directed by

Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov

Written by

Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov, Rudolph Herzog

Produced by

Christoph Fisser, Carl Woebcken, Nick N. Raslan