Poster for the movie Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010 • 94 minutes
Documentary

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.

Picture of Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

Narrator (voice)

Picture of Gennady Soloviev

Gennady Soloviev

Self - Trapper #1

Picture of Anatoly Blumei

Anatoly Blumei

Self - Trapper #2

Picture of Gennady Tiganov

Gennady Tiganov

Self - Native Boat Builder

Picture of Mikhail Tarkovsky

Mikhail Tarkovsky

Self - Trapper #3