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Happy People | Spring (part 1) [Happy People Documentary | Spring in Siberia Part 1
The first part of Dmitry Vasyukov's four-part Russian documentary series about trappers and villagers living in the Siberian taiga. This episode follows spring life along the Yenisei, with hunting, fishing and subsistence in harsh surroundings.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as the authentic original that many prefer over Werner Herzog's shortened re-cut.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Дмитрий Васюков
- Topic
- siberian taiga life
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Herzog's documentary is just a new cut of the original Russian documentary, adding Herzog's old hippie narrative. The original version is fantastic, and much more authentic. Available on YouTube, with subtitles, on the director's own channel: [VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK]
virgulino on Hacker News · 2021-01
In Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ice Age wintersThank you. What Herzog did was re-edit and put his own narration on the original Russian Happy People, a 4-part documentary. I like the original much better, I think of it as the authentic view, while Herzog's version is the typical old German hippie looking …
virgulino on Hacker News · 2023-01
In Living Alone in the Wild Siberian ForestThere is a somewhat similar russian documentary about people leaving in the small settlements in Siberia: Happy People [VIDEO]
ak1394 on Hacker News · 2015-09
In Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and mud and stone walls
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