

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Visit website7.3/10 • 128
2010-09-03 • 1h 34m
The director of Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Grizzly Man takes you on an epic journey into the heart of the Siberian wilderness
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.
- Directors
- Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov
- Writters
- Dmitry Vasyukov, Rudolph Herzog, Werner Herzog
- Editors
- Dmitry Vasyukov, Rudolph Herzog, Werner Herzog, Joe Bini

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Visit website2010-09-03 • 1h 34m
7.3/10 • 128
The director of Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Grizzly Man takes you on an epic journey into the heart of the Siberian wilderness
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.
- Directors
- Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov
- Writters
- Dmitry Vasyukov, Rudolph Herzog, Werner Herzog
- Editors
- Dmitry Vasyukov, Rudolph Herzog, Werner Herzog, Joe Bini
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsWerner 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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- Status
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- Original Language
- English
- Budget
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- Revenue
- $338,987.00
- Keywords
- remotenesswildernesssnowdog sledsiberia