Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010 · 94 min · EN · NR · 7.3 (109 votes)
Dir. Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov · Starring Werner Herzog, Gennady Soloviev, Anatoly Blumei, Gennady Tiganov, Mikhail Tarkovsky · Music Klaus Badelt

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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A profound immersion into a life dictated by the rhythms of nature. It's a quiet, starkly beautiful look at resilience and tradition in the vast Siberian wilderness, offering a sense of peace and deep connection to the earth.

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