Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Werner Herzog Narrator (voice)

Gennady Soloviev Self - Trapper #1

Anatoly Blumei Self - Trapper #2

Gennady Tiganov Self - Native Boat Builder

Mikhail Tarkovsky Self - Trapper #3