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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

09/03/2010

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1hr 34min

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Documentary

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

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Werner Herzog
  • Gennady Soloviev
  • Anatoly Blumei
  • Gennady Tiganov
  • Mikhail Tarkovsky

    Directors

  • Werner Herzog
  • Dmitry Vasyukov
  • Rudolph Herzog

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Studio Babelsberg

    Production Countries

  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • Russian

Cast

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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