Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)

Directed by Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov

“The director of Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Grizzly Man takes you on an epic journey into the heart of the Siberian wilderness”

Documentary · 1h 34m

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.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov
Writer
Dmitry Vasyukov, Rudolph Herzog, Werner Herzog
Director of Photography
Gleb Stepanov, Alexey Matveev
Original Music Composer
Klaus Badelt
Editor
Maxim Perepelkin, Dmitry Vasyukov, Joe Bini
Producer
Christoph Fisser, Nick N. Raslan, Carl Woebcken

Details

Release date
2010-09-03
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
Russian, English
Countries
Germany
Production
Studio Babelsberg
Box office
$338,987