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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Documentary · 2010
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.
The sides of Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
- A Siberian village on the Yenisei river
- Trappers working through a full year
- Dogs, snow and handmade skis
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga is good for you if…
- you like the taiga through four seasons, from frozen rivers to summer mosquitoes.
- you like watching a trapper build a canoe or a trap at his own pace.
- you want a quiet film about people living off the land.
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga is bad for you if…
- you need something to happen beyond the daily work.
About: self-reliance · tradition · solitude
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