According to the media “Variety”, Werner Herzog’s new documentary “The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft” has been ordered by several European TV stations.
The film tells the story of the famous French “volcanic couple” Katia and Maurice.
Katia and Maurice are volcanologists. The two fell in love with volcanoes since childhood, and the same ambitions and hobbies brought them together.
Their whole life is devoted to active volcano research, and their footprints are all over the world’s volcanoes.
In 1991, the two climbed the Unzendake volcano in Japan and were buried in the sudden eruption of the volcano.
Katia and Maurice left a large number of video files. In the rescued video data, it can be seen that even at the last moment of their lives, they were still recording and broadcasting the eruption of the volcano.
The film is directed, written and narrated by Werner Herzog, one of the four great new filmmakers in Germany.
Previously, Herzog has filmed a number of successful documentaries such as “Grizzly Man”, “Encounters at the End of the World” and so on.
In 2009, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by “Time” magazine.
