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The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2022
Synopsis
Husband-and-wife volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft were killed during an eruption of Japan’s Mount Unzen in 1991. Paying tribute to these pioneering scientists and their impact on a dangerous field, director Werner Herzog ruminates on the groundbreaking, close-range footage they left behind.
Editorial
Werner Herzog drew on material shot by Katia and Maurice Krafft for his documentary Into the Inferno. Here, he goes one further, crafting an entire film from the volcanologists’ footage. Eschewing conventional biography, Herzog fashions an awe-inspiring eulogy to the duo’s singular cinematic vision.
