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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)

The director of Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Grizzly Man takes you on an epic journey into the heart of the Siberian wilderness

Radar 35Stable signalUS:NR1h 34mDocumentary

The Radar read

A quieter title still finding its audience, though the rating rests on a thin sample, so treat it as provisional.

Synopsis

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.

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Radar score35/100
Quality signal64/100
Audience rating7.3
Votes counted141
Trust signalStable signal

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