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.
You can now watch Happy People: A Year in the Taiga online on the following streaming providers in the United States.
| Writing | Werner Herzog | Writer |
| Writing | Rudolph Herzog | Writer |
| Directing | Werner Herzog | Director |
| Directing | Dmitry Vasyukov | Director |
| Sound | Klaus Badelt | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Joe Bini | Editor |
| Writing | Dmitry Vasyukov | Writer |
| Production | Christoph Fisser | Producer |
| Production | Klaus Badelt | Executive Producer |
| Production | Timur Bekmambetov | Executive Producer |
| Production | Werner Herzog | Executive Producer |
| Production | Robyn Klein | Associate Producer |
| Production | Thomas Nickel | Co-Producer |
| Production | Nick N. Raslan | Producer |
| Production | Charlie Woebcken | Producer |
| Camera | Alexey Matveev | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Gleb Stepanov | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Maxim Perepelkin | Editor |
| Editing | Dmitry Vasyukov | Editor |
