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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

20107.3 / 1094 min

Documentary

Overview

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.

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

Timur Bekmambetov

Executive Producer

Werner Herzog

Executive Producer

Robyn Klein

Associate Producer

Klaus Badelt

Executive Producer

Christoph Fisser

Producer

Nick N. Raslan

Producer

Maxim Perepelkin

Editor

Gleb Stepanov

Director of Photography

Dmitry Vasyukov

Editor

Thomas Nickel

Co-Producer

Carl Woebcken

Producer

Alexey Matveev

Director of Photography

Dmitry Vasyukov

Writer

Klaus Badelt

Original Music Composer

Rudolph Herzog

Writer

Werner Herzog

Director

Dmitry Vasyukov

Director

Werner Herzog

Writer

Joe Bini

Editor