HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA

As Werner Herzog demonstrated in Grizzly Man, he has a talent for reinterpreting another filmmaker’s footage. Now in Happy People, he takes on the work of Russian director Dmitry Vasyukov, following Siberian fur trappers through four seasons as they carry out traditions that have lasted for centuries. Herzog condenses the film from four hours and adds narration to turn Happy People “into a mesmerizing Walden-like ode to wilderness life”