Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
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.
Directors: Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov.
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Werner Herzog as Narrator (voice) |
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Gennady Soloviev as Self - Trapper #1 |
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Anatoly Blumei as Self - Trapper #2 |
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Gennady Tiganov as Self - Native Boat Builder |
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Mikhail Tarkovsky as Self - Trapper #3 |
| Production | Christoph Fisser | Producer |
| Camera | Alexey Matveev | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Maxim Perepelkin | Editor |
| Camera | Gleb Stepanov | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Dmitry Vasyukov | Editor |
| Production | Thomas Nickel | Co-Producer |
| Production | Carl Woebcken | Producer |
| Production | Nick N. Raslan | Producer |
| Production | Werner Herzog | Executive Producer |
| Production | Robyn Klein | Associate Producer |
| Production | Klaus Badelt | Executive Producer |
| Production | Timur Bekmambetov | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Klaus Badelt | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Werner Herzog | Writer |
| Writing | Dmitry Vasyukov | Writer |
| Writing | Rudolph Herzog | Writer |
| Directing | Werner Herzog | Director |
| Directing | Dmitry Vasyukov | Director |
| Editing | Joe Bini | Editor |