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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

The director of Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Grizzly Man takes you on an epic journey into the heart of the Siberian wilderness
Sep 3, 2010 · 1h 34m
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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.

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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
Directed by Werner Herzog

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
$338,987
Production
Studio Babelsberg
Country
DE

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