About Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
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.
Full Cast of Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Werner Herzog
plays Self - Narrator (voice)
Gennady Soloviev
plays Self - Trapper #1
Anatoly Blumei
plays Self - Trapper #2
Gennady Tiganov
plays Self - Native Boat Builder
Mikhail Tarkovsky
plays Self - Trapper #3
Crew of Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
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