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The director of Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Grizzly Man takes you on an epic journey into the heart of the Siberian wilderness - Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
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Title: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Release Date: 3 Sep 2010

Runtime: 1h 34m

Genre: Documentary

Director: Studio Babelsberg

Production Companies: Studio Babelsberg

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.

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Cast

  • Narrator (voice): Werner Herzog
  • Self - Trapper #1: Gennady Soloviev
  • Self - Trapper #2: Anatoly Blumei
  • Self - Native Boat Builder: Gennady Tiganov
  • Self - Trapper #3: Mikhail Tarkovsky
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