Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

About Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

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.

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga is a 2010 documentary film directed by Dmitry Vasyukov and Werner Herzog. Werner Herzog appears as Narrator (voice), Gennady Soloviev as Self - Trapper #1, Anatoly Blumei as Self - Trapper #2, and Gennady Tiganov as Self - Native Boat Builder.

It runs 94 minutes and was released in September 2010. Written by Dmitry Vasyukov and Rudolph Herzog. It is adapted from real events.

Members will find snow, wilderness, siberia, and dog sled in it. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Brew in the United States. It scores 7.3 out of 10 from 143 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.

The Revenant, Never Cry Wolf, and Into the Wild make useful companions to Happy People: A Year in the Taiga.