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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010 · 1h 34m · Documentary

The director of Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Grizzly Man takes you on an epic journey into the heart of the Siberian wilderness

IMDb
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
Metacritic
74

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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

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

Narrator (voice)

Gennady Soloviev

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Anatoly Blumei

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Gennady Tiganov

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Mikhail Tarkovsky

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Details

Release date
September 3, 2010
Status
Released
Original language
English
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
NR
Revenue
$338,987
Genres
Documentary

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