Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

1h 34m
Documentary
7.2

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.

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

Crew

Werner Herzog
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Dmitry Vasyukov
Director, Writer, Editor
Rudolph Herzog
Writer
Maxim Perepelkin
Editor
Joe Bini
Editor
Alexey Matveev
Director of Photography
Gleb Stepanov
Director of Photography
Klaus Badelt
Executive Producer, Original Music Composer
Timur Bekmambetov
Executive Producer
Christoph Fisser
Producer
Carl Woebcken
Producer
Nick N. Raslan
Producer
Robyn Klein
Associate Producer
Thomas Nickel
Co-Producer

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