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The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

Documentary, 2022 (Ongoing)

French volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft were killed in the 1991 eruption of Mount Unzen in Japan. The Fire Within pays homage to the Kraffts, who left an archive of more than 200 hours of footage of footage from their decades of work, which Werner Herzog draws on for this moving eulogy.

Run time: 1 hr and 24 min

Mild themes

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The director, besides feeling drawn by the chaotic beauty of nature, has a profound weakness for those he identifies as equals... Those who put mortality aside to focus on the poetry that is conceived between calm and destruction. [Full review in Spanish]

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Directed by: Werner Herzog

Actors: Katia Krafft Maurice Krafft

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