Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

(2010)

★ 7.7 IMDb · 142 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2010

Runtime: 94 min

Country: Germany

Director: Вернер Херцог, Дмитрий Васюков

Cast: Вернер Херцог, Gennady Soloviev, Anatoly Blumei, Gennady Tiganov, Mikhail Tarkovsky

Plot

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.