Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
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. The expressive pictures are accompanied by original sound bites quoting the villagers.
Directed By
Werner Herzog, Dmitry VasyukovWritten By
Werner Herzog, Rudolph Herzog, Dmitry VasyukovStudio
Studio BabelsbergCast of Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Werner HerzogSelf - Narrator (voice)
Gennady SolovievSelf - Trapper #1
Anatoly BlumeiSelf - Trapper #2
Gennady TiganovSelf - Native Boat Builder
Mikhail TarkovskySelf - Trapper #3
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