Happy People: A Year in the Taiga doesn’t quite qualify as a Werner Herzog movie. Think of it more as a Herzog remix: The idiosyncratic German director culled 94 minutes of footage from a four-hour documentary the filmmaker Dmitry Vasyukov created for Russian television. Vasyukov had spent a year and a half living in a remote Siberian village, following the day-to-day life of its residents over the course of four seasons. After condensing and re-editing Vasyukov’s film for theatrical release (with the help of his son, Rudolph Herzog, and editor Joe Bini), Herzog added one of his ... Read More