
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
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.
Director: Werner Herzog
Director: Dmitry Vasyukov
Writers: Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov, Rudolph Herzog
The 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
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