Happy People: A Year in the Taiga(2010)
The director of Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Grizzly Man takes you on an epic journey into the heart of the Siberian wilderness
Overview
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
Writers
Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov, Rudolph Herzog
Country
Germany
Language
Russian, English
Revenue
$0.3M
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