| Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Dmitry Vasyukov |
| Produced by | Christoph Fisser Nick N. Raslan Carl Woebcken Klaus Badelt Timur Bekmambetov Werner Herzog |
| Written by | Rudolph Herzog Werner Herzog |
| Narrated by | Werner Herzog |
| Music by | Klaus Badelt |
| Editing by | Joe Bini |
| Studio | Studio Babelsberg |
| Release date(s) | November 2010 |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | English Russian |
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga is a 2010 documentary film directed by Dmitry Vasyukov and produced by Werner Herzog. The film depicts the life of the people in the village of Bakhtin along the Yenisei River in Siberian Taiga.
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.[1]