In the spare yet grand Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, co-director and tour guide Werner Herzog talks us through one season cycle in the life of a not-of-this-century trapper in the Siberian town ...

Werner Herzog was developing film projects in sunny Los Angeles when he was introduced to four features about Siberian trappers made by the Russian documentarian Dmitry Vasyukov; captivated, Herzog ...

I've found great comfort and entertainment in the Werner Herzog and Dmitry Vasyukov-directed documentary Happy People: A Year In The Taiga. The 2010 film documents the lives of fur trappers in the ...

This fascinating documentary profiles a group of rugged, self-sufficient Siberian trappers who live in the village of Bakhtia and lead difficult yet fulfilling lives far outside the confines of ...

Millions of Russian soldiers were returning to Russia, and many brought back a problem for their leaders. The problem: how to keep them down on the collective farm, after they’d seen Paree (in various ...

In the Siberian taiga you are “no hunter without a dog,” says German film director Werner Herzog, and the dogs are “phenomenal”—big, strong, intelligent, and agile. Often the only companions of ...