Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
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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 Siberia
n Taiga
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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
.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
directed by Dmitry Vasyukov and produced by Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
. The film depicts the life of the people in the village of Bakhtin along the Yenisei River
Yenisei River
Yenisei , also written as Yenisey, is the largest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean. It is the central of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean...
in Siberia
Siberia
Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th...
n Taiga
Taiga
Taiga , also known as the boreal forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests.Taiga is the world's largest terrestrial biome. In North America it covers most of inland Canada and Alaska as well as parts of the extreme northern continental United States and is known as the Northwoods...
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The film premiered in Germany in November 2010, had its United States premiere at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival
Telluride Film Festival
The Telluride Film Festival was started in 1974 by Bill and Stella Pence, Tom Luddy and Jim Card in the town of Telluride, Colorado, United States. It is operated by the National Film Preserve....
, and the U.S. West Coast premiere on 6 March 2011 at the San Francisco Green Film Festival
San Francisco Green Film Festival
San Francisco Green Film Festival is a film festival which was held 3-6 March 2011 at the Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco.The festival featured the Brazilian documentary film Hauling directed by Sean Walsh, and the film Happy People: A Year in the Taiga by Werner Herzog...
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External links
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga at SF Green Film Fest
- Peter DeBrugge, Variety (September 27, 2010)