Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

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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. The expressive pictures are accompanied by original sound bites quoting the villagers.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Happy People: A Year in the Taiga:

Werner Herzog
Gennady Soloviev
Anatoly Blumei
Gennady Tiganov
Mikhail Tarkovsky

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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. The expressive pictures are accompanied by original sound bites quoting the villagers.

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St. Paul Pioneer Press - 9/10 by Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)Herzog ... continues his streak of well-crafted documentaries with surprising subjects.
Cinemalogue - 9/10 by Todd JorgensonIt's refreshing to glimpse contemporary people who are the epitome of rustic self-reliance, as we learn how professional trappers build their own cabins, hunt for their own food, and construct their own canoes from tree trunks.
Chicago Sun-Times - 9/10 by Steven BooneLike "Grizzly Man," Herzog's latest documentary, Happy People: A Year in the Taiga is mostly built around another filmmaker's priceless footage.
Toronto Star - 9/10 by Bruce DeMaraThe scenes of the river ice buckling and heaving as the spring thaw sets in are among many that display raw and powerful nature.
St. Paul Pioneer Press - 9/10 by Chris HewittHerzog ... continues his streak of well-crafted documentaries with surprising subjects.
Seattle Times - 8/10 by Tom KeoghHerzog is not insincere. His passion for outsize experience has always captured our essential human identity against big backdrops. He captures it again in "Happy People," but this time with a twist.
Capital Times (Madison, WI) - 8/10 by Rob ThomasIn a very real sense, we are watching Herzog watch this film, his rapturous reaction illuminating as much about himself as his subjects.
Philadelphia City Paper - 8/10 by Sam AdamsUnmistakably part of the director's canon, and just as unmistakably a minor addition to it.
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/10 by Walter V. AddiegoIt's a do-it-yourself world that Herzog clearly admires - much of what we see is the men performing the tasks that enable them to survive.
Los Angeles Times - 8/10 by Betsy SharkeyHerzog has become a master of the understatement — knowing just how long the images can sustain you without a word being said. Vasyukov and his team of cameramen gave him a stunning range to work with, so the filmmaker keeps his own narration to a minimum.

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