Every documentary could use the Werner Herzog touch. No one makes nonfiction films that are more insightful and more entertaining than the German writer-director.
His latest work, “Happy People: A Year in the Taiga,” proves the point. Herzog took a four-hour made-for-Russian-television documentary on the way of life of the 300 people living in Bakhta, a village near the Yenisei River deep in Siberia, and turned it into an intense hour-and-a-half meditation on … well, it’s Werner Herzog, so it’s sort of a meditation on everything.
Recommended Stories
Print subscriber? Click here to login/register your account
Digital subscriber? Click here to login/register your account.