Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | |
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Directed by |
Dmitry Vasyukov Werner Herzog |
Produced by |
Christoph Fisser Nick N. Raslan Yanko Damboulev Carl Woebcken Klaus Badelt Timur Bekmambetov Werner Herzog |
Written by |
Rudolph Herzog Werner Herzog |
Narrated by | Werner Herzog |
Music by | Klaus Badelt |
Edited by | Joe Bini |
Production company | |
Release dates |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language |
English Russian |
Box office | $338,987[1] |
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga is a 2010 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog and Dmitry Vasyukov and produced by Herzog.[2] The film depicts the life of the people in the village of Bakhta (62°27′52″N 89°00′08″E / 62.464463°N 89.002168°E) along the Yenisei River in the Siberian taiga. In particular, it focuses on the trappers who hunt for fur animals like sable. It also briefly detours to a look at the life of native Ket people. The footage in the documentary was edited from a previous television work by Vasuykov, with original production and voiceovers by Herzog.[3]
The film premiered in Germany in November 2010, had its United States premiere at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival, and the U.S. West Coast premiere on 6 March 2011 at the San Francisco Green Film Festival.[4]
References
External links
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga at the Internet Movie Database
- Official website
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga at SF Green Film Fest
- Peter DeBrugge, Variety (September 27, 2010)