Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
- Release Date: April 13, 2012 (limited)
- Genre: Documentary
- Director: Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov
- Producer(s): Vladimir Perepelkin, Christoph Fisser, Nick N. Raslan, Charlie Woebcken
- Writer(s): Werner Herzog, Rudolph Herzog
- Studio: Mongrel Media
- Length: 1h 30m
Synopsis
The lives of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga are shown over the course 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.