Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010 · directed by Werner Herzog

Rating
77/100
Hit
no

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.

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010), directed by Werner Herzog, rates 77/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

  • Werner Herzog
  • Gennady Soloviev
  • Anatoly Blumei
  • Gennady Tiganov
  • Mikhail Tarkovsky

Crew

  • Alexey Matveev — Director of Photography
  • Gleb Stepanov — Director of Photography
  • Dmitry Vasyukov — Editor
  • Joe Bini — Editor
  • Maxim Perepelkin — Editor
  • Klaus Badelt — Original Music Composer
  • Dmitry Vasyukov — Writer
  • Rudolph Herzog — Writer
  • Werner Herzog — Writer

More from Werner Herzog

  1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) — 98/100 · hit
  2. Lessons of Darkness (1992) — 88/100 · TV film, not counted
  3. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) — 84/100 · hit
  4. Stroszek (1977) — 83/100 · hit
  5. Grizzly Man (2005) — 82/100 · hit
  6. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) — 81/100 · hit

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