Name: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2010-09-03
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 7.3

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"

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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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Sep 3, 2010

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$339K

DVD / Blu-ray

Apr 23, 2013

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Directors

Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov

Producers

Christoph Fisser, Klaus Badelt, Timur Bekmambetov

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