Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

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	Studio Babelsberg
Release dates	November 2010 (2010-11)
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 / 62.464463; 89.002168) 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

↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=happypeople.htm
↑ "Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)". Rotten Tomatoes.
↑ "Siberian Hunters in Their Element", The New York Times, January 24, 2013
↑ SF Green Film Festival website

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)

Films directed by Werner Herzog

Feature films	Signs of Life (1968) Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) Fata Morgana (1971) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) Heart of Glass (1976) Stroszek (1977) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Woyzeck (1979) Fitzcarraldo (1982) Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) Cobra Verde (1987) Scream of Stone (1991) Lessons of Darkness (1992) Invincible (2001) The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) Rescue Dawn (2007) The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009) Queen of the Desert (2015)

Documentaries	The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969) Handicapped Future (1971) Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) La Soufrière (1977) Huie's Sermon (1981) God's Angry Man (1981) Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984) Wodaabe – Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990) Jag Mandir (1991) Bells from the Deep (1993) The Transformation of the World into Music (1994) Death for Five Voices (1995) Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) My Best Fiend (1999) Wings of Hope (2000) Pilgrimage (2001) Ten Thousand Years Older (2002) Wheel of Time (2003) The White Diamond (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Into the Abyss (2011) On Death Row (2012) From One Second to the Next (2013) Lo & Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

Shorts	Herakles (1962) Game in the Sand (1964) The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967) Last Words (1967) Precautions Against Fanatics (1969) No One Will Play with Me (1976) Portrait Werner Herzog (1986) Les Gaulois (1988) La bohème (2009)

Other	Incident at Loch Ness (2004)

See also: Werner Herzog bibliography

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