Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Directed by Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov

Written by Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov, Rudolph Herzog

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)

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Gennady Soloviev

Self - Trapper #1

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Anatoly Blumei

Self - Trapper #2

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Gennady Tiganov

Self - Native Boat Builder

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Mikhail Tarkovsky

Self - Trapper #3