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The Fire Within A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022) [Full Movie] [Trending]Full EP - Full
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00:00:23This film is in memory of Katja and Maurice Kraft.
00:00:28Volcanologists from the Alsace region in France.
00:00:34Almost everything that we are going to see is footage shot by them.
00:00:41There is something so awe-inspiring in it, so never seen before, that attracted me as a filmmaker.
00:00:50They lost their lives together, capturing the might of volcanoes.
00:00:55This is their legacy.
00:01:00The lives and the deaths of Katja and Maurice are documented in films and books,
00:01:06and this here is not meant to be another extensive biography.
00:01:12What I am trying to do here is to celebrate the wonder of their imagery.
00:01:39This here is Katja Kraft at a volcano in Iceland.
00:01:54And this is her husband, Maurice.
00:02:18This is Katja and Maurice.
00:02:20This is Katja and Maurice.
00:02:26This is Katja and Maurice.
00:02:33Elsa's Eastern France.
00:02:36Both were born in villages not far apart of each other,
00:02:41surrounded by vineyards with a deep tradition of unchanged peasant life.
00:02:48They were roaming the entire globe in pursuit of erupting volcanoes,
00:02:54but they would always return to the quiet landscape of their origin.
00:03:00Katja studied geochemistry at Strasbourg University with a goal to become a volcanologist.
00:03:08Shortly later, at the same university, Maurice began his studies in geology.
00:03:16The bug of volcanoes had been in him since he was seven when his parents took him to the Italian
00:03:23volcano Stromboli.
00:03:26Katja and Maurice met in Strasbourg in 1966 and never left each other ever after.
00:03:43This is the place of their death, the southern island of Kyushu in Japan, right in the middle of the
00:03:51volcano Mount Unzen.
00:03:54May 30th, 1991.
00:03:58The crafts arrived there on that day.
00:04:03The mountain had shown signs of a serious impending eruption.
00:04:10When they arrived near the volcano in a rented car, a friend and colleague, Harry Glicken, is with them.
00:04:20Japanese reporters, photographers, and TV crews are already there.
00:04:27This is the established viewing point for the media.
00:04:32Authorities have declared an evacuation advisory area some four kilometers distant from the crater.
00:04:39Its delineation and the movements of the crafts would later lead to lasting controversies.
00:04:48They were blamed for luring cameramen and journalists into a dangerous position.
00:04:54But these positions were taken days before the crafts arrived.
00:05:05Here, they make a first assessment of the situation.
00:05:10Small, so-called pyroclastic flows have occurred recently.
00:05:23The newspapers have reported about the pyroclastic flows, highly dangerous clouds of superheated particles and gases.
00:05:37Maurice is setting up his camera.
00:05:40He still shoots 16mm celluloid.
00:05:45The local TV crew now captures Katja, who is setting up the tripod for her photo camera.
00:06:12Maurice has problems with the battery of his zoom.
00:06:17The zoom doesn't work.
00:06:20I don't know why.
00:06:21I don't know why.
00:06:42The mountain is quiet.
00:06:45Nothing worth shooting right now.
00:06:48Katja, Maurice, and Glicken seem to be at ease.
00:06:53The Japanese media people are also oblivious of the impending doom.
00:07:03Whoever stayed here at this outpost, cameramen, reporters, and taxi drivers would be dead in a few days.
00:07:19Helicopters can be heard in the distance.
00:07:22They monitor the crater.
00:07:29Police is also present, maintaining the exclusion zone.
00:07:42Now, something important is coming.
00:07:46And if we stay on the top of this hill, it's possible about it.
00:07:50Maurice just hinted at moving their position onto a hill closer to the volcano.
00:07:58Apparently, this idea is taking root right now.
00:08:03If there is a road going there, Katja agrees.
00:08:07If you have a road, it's okay.
00:08:09And here, suddenly a small pyroclastic flow that will stop in the distance.
00:08:25And there is a lot to understand, to take pictures, and then to study the pictures.
00:08:31And also, we like very much to come in Japan because you have very good observatories and very good volcanologists.
00:08:39So we can learn a lot with them.
00:08:43At last, you can meet your friend, pyroclastic flow.
00:08:49But that was a very small one.
00:08:51Very small, yes.
00:08:52Very small.
00:08:53I hope you see bigger ones than this one.
00:08:55Because this is very small, really, yes.
00:08:58This is one of the smallest pyroclastic flow I have seen in my life.
00:09:06But yesterday's pyroclastic flow is very, very big one.
00:09:10And that is the biggest one.
00:09:13The cloud covers the full mountain.
00:09:17Oh, yes.
00:09:18Uh-huh.
00:09:18I would like to see this kind of thing, bigger, yes.
00:09:21Sure.
00:09:22But probably a whole part of the dome collapsed at this moment.
00:09:26So maybe it will need some hours or days to make a new dome that may collapse, part of the
00:09:37dome.
00:09:38Sure.
00:09:39This is exactly what would happen a few days later on June 3rd, the day they would perish.
00:09:47We hope always, but we cannot be sure and we don't know nothing.
00:09:52You have big blocks on the top and they have to come down, but when?
00:09:57We know that Katja had much deeper concerns about the dangers than she would admit on camera.
00:10:04In fact, there was a crisis in their relationship because Katja wanted to leave for the Philippines where the volcano
00:10:13Pinatubo was about to erupt.
00:10:16Maurice insisted he would stay no matter what and Katja stayed with him.
00:10:24I have seen so much eruptions in 23 years that even if I die tomorrow, I don't care.
00:10:39The crafts had a few narrow escapes in their lives.
00:10:43It was sheer luck.
00:10:45In 1983, they chartered a boat to approach Una Una volcano in Indonesia.
00:10:52The volcano had erupted, leaving destruction on this small island.
00:11:22It does not look good.
00:11:25Despite all science, volcanoes are still unpredictable.
00:11:31But Katja ventures out, exploring.
00:11:34Maurice following her with his camera.
00:11:37She L
00:11:39Watching America
00:12:23To be continued...
00:12:32To be continued...
00:13:09To be continued...
00:13:51To be continued...
00:13:59And then they come across some livestock left behind when the island was evacuated.
00:14:05The cows, thirsty and starving, seem to sense something.
00:14:15The goats look uneasy as well.
00:14:30And then there is a new eruption, menacing enough to make the crafts retreat.
00:14:35But they don't know what's coming very soon.
00:14:41Seeing Katja here taking her time and Maurice clearly still filming from the shore, we feel
00:14:48like hurrying them up.
00:14:50It feels like hurrying them up.
00:14:50She is my son.
00:14:53She is my son.
00:15:05She is my son.
00:15:09She is my son.
00:15:25they made it to safety there was no danger for them anymore and then this the entire island
00:15:33exploded later katya writes in her diary we would have been cooked in a second
00:15:52three years later 1986 the crafts were lucky again a helicopter took them to the volcano
00:16:01saint augustine in alaska
00:16:38so
00:17:00When both were near the crater itself, a massive explosion released a gigantic pyroclastic
00:17:08flow.
00:17:10Inside the cloud, temperatures can reach way over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit and the cloud
00:17:16can travel at speeds up to 400 miles an hour.
00:17:21The strange thing is that what's coming at you is silent.
00:17:32The pyroclastic flow comes within about 100 feet of the camera, but Maurice does not flee.
00:17:40He calmly keeps it in frame until he runs out of film.
00:17:45And Katja, who took this picture, does not flee either.
00:17:56The Polymer
00:17:57The Polymer
00:17:57The Polymer
00:18:21It was a long way for the crafts to become the figures in their later films.
00:18:27This here is Iceland 1968.
00:18:31They did not do camera work themselves.
00:18:34All the early footage was shot by Roland Haas, who had formed a company with Maurice.
00:18:42Katja's and Maurice's roles were not defined yet.
00:18:46Maurice, still boyish, looks uncomfortable on camera.
00:18:54Katja appears to be aimless, just embellishing a shot.
00:19:00Most of the time, she disappears quickly.
00:19:091970, they were on the Italian island of Vulcano.
00:19:13The crater is inactive, except for some escaping steam.
00:19:21Their film looks like home movies made by tourists.
00:19:26Everything is unspectacular.
00:19:33Their means of transportation are as primitive as it gets.
00:19:44What is interesting is that we see them doing scientific measurements.
00:19:50Maurice monitoring seismic activities and Katja measuring chemical compositions of gases.
00:20:12And here for the first time, we see Maurice doing something for the camera, yet to no avail.
00:20:44Volcanoes have a natural attraction.
00:20:47Tourists are climbing up the crater as well.
00:21:04A bold young lady makes it all the way up to the rim in high heels and bikini.
00:21:28We see them now arriving in their base camp at the bottom.
00:21:32Their life is documented as if they were tourists.
00:21:38The focus is on jam, bread and Italian sausage.
00:21:54Two years later, there is a shift.
00:21:57Now, on the Italian volcano Stromboli, they come up with something that looks like out of a carnival.
00:22:05They brought along specially made helmets, rather grotesque.
00:22:10The idea behind it was protection against chunks of flying rocks.
00:22:17And now, they stage it, fake it for the camera.
00:22:21They shoot several takes.
00:22:24Watch the guy in the background.
00:22:25I love his fake acting.
00:22:32Katja seems to be embarrassed, unconvinced.
00:22:41These helmets make your movements clumsy.
00:22:45No serious volcanologist ever used them, and the crafts abandoned their idea quickly.
00:22:57Soon, the crafts were able to attract sponsors.
00:23:01They made an extensive expedition to Indonesia with a van and two smaller vehicles, all supported by the city of
00:23:10Mulhouse in Alsas.
00:23:16Maurice began a phase where he styled himself after the world-renowned underwater filmmaker Jacques Cousteau, wearing his trademark red
00:23:26woolen cap and smoking a pipe.
00:23:33The crafts apparently found it cool to use pathetic-looking inflatable seats.
00:23:44Katja's role on camera was still diminished.
00:23:47Frequently, she would be used for scale.
00:23:50Here in Yosemite, she is hit by some drops of hot water.
00:23:57For the camera, they repeated several times, all fake.
00:24:02The people in person.
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00:24:32Increasingly, they became filmmakers.
00:24:35From now on, we rarely ever see them doing science.
00:24:40They film others doing science.
00:24:59Katja becomes a sound recordist using state-of-the-art microphones and tape recorders.
00:25:13She also takes the role of photographer. Her pictures were published in magazines and a book.
00:25:20More than 400,000 pictures of hers are in the archive, enough to fill several more volumes.
00:25:31And here, like out of a fog, Maurice's real persona seems to emerge.
00:25:37The mask comes off, his face raw, grown up. Just him.
00:25:49And at the same time, as if out of nowhere, the images become grandiose.
00:25:56A great filmmaker is born.
00:26:01This is Iceland 1973.
00:26:05The small southern island of Heimei was surprised by a trench opening and spewing red-hot lava.
00:26:15Maurice captures here an apocalypse that we have never seen before on film.
00:26:21Sin reported on film.
00:26:27The metal music music.
00:26:33Theな is written by Samo Canal.
00:27:03Satsang with Mooji
00:27:35Satsang with Mooji
00:27:51Satsang with Mooji
00:27:51When looking at Maurice, right at the eruption, it seems that this is more than just a volcanic event.
00:27:59A fire within has taken hold of him.
00:28:04And it is certainly the same with Katja.
00:28:08She clearly expressed it in an interview.
00:28:11I cannot live without volcanoes.
00:28:35Satsang with Mooji
00:29:06Satsang with Mooji
00:29:34Satsang with Mooji
00:30:04Satsang with Mooji
00:30:34Satsang with Mooji
00:30:34This image was taken years before.
00:30:37The volcano still has its pointed peak covered in snow.
00:30:42A series of earthquakes and steam venting episodes beginning in March signaled a major event.
00:30:50Seismic recordings went wild.
00:30:57On May 18th at 8.32 in the morning, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred.
00:31:05This triggered the largest landslide in recorded history and an explosion.
00:31:11The horizontal blast accelerated to 670 miles per hour.
00:31:20Within a radius of 8 miles per hour.
00:31:23Within a radius of 8 miles, everything was obliterated.
00:31:25And up to a distance of 19 miles, the shockwave flattened every single tree.
00:31:40Katja and Maurice
00:31:42Having acquired a reputation to be the earliest on a scene, this time came a few days late.
00:31:52Approaching the zone of destruction, everything looks normal, the forests are still standing.
00:32:03Then, 20 miles away from the volcano, first signs of devastation.
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00:34:30Mid-80s, Hawaii.
00:34:33The crafts increasingly are attracted to the magnificence and mystery of the inner earth flowing to the surface.
00:35:23They are no longer volcanologists, they are artists who carry us, the spectators, away
00:35:31in a realm of strange beauty.
00:35:33This is a vision that exists only in dreams.
00:35:37There is nothing more that should be said.
00:35:40We can only watch in awe.
00:36:10There is nothing more that should be said.
00:37:28There is a fascination about the beauty of volcanoes,
00:37:32but they have caused terrible disasters.
00:37:36This is the summit of Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia.
00:37:40Its peak was covered with glaciers and snow that had accumulated for decades.
00:37:48At 9.09 p.m. on November 13, 1985, an eruption occurred.
00:37:56It was only 3% of what was ejected from Mount St. Helens.
00:38:02But the glowing lava and pyroclastic flows melted the ice almost instantly.
00:38:10The white summit turned dark.
00:38:13This was filmed by the crafts a few days after the event.
00:38:19And this is the flank of the mountain where the water and mud came down,
00:38:24growing larger and larger.
00:38:26So-called lahars formed.
00:38:35What we see here was filmed by the crafts years earlier in the Alps of Italy.
00:38:41It is completely unrelated to Nevado del Ruiz.
00:38:45But we can get an idea what came down in Colombia.
00:38:52Water, eroded soil and dislodged rocks came sweeping down.
00:38:58However, the lahar in Colombia was 100 feet deep.
00:39:30It took more than an hour until it reached the town of Armea.
00:39:34Aero, some thirty miles away.
00:39:37By then, the huge stream had widened to a kilometer, sweeping through the town.
00:39:46Out of 29,000 inhabitants, over 20,000 of them perished.
00:39:55Only a few buildings on higher ground remained standing.
00:40:02This was the fourth deadliest disaster in recorded history.
00:40:09What we see here used to be the center of town.
00:40:15The power of the flood can be imagined by the size of boulders it carried along.
00:40:29There used to be a bridge here.
00:40:33These here are lucky survivors, lucky because no one was warned.
00:40:39The volcano had given signals, so strong, that later a volcanologist said, the volcano
00:40:47was screaming, I'm about to explode.
00:40:52After the eruption, there was more than an hour time until the flood hit the town.
00:41:00It would have taken most of the inhabitants just 200 meters to reach higher ground.
00:41:06We have to imagine the water rose higher than the bulldozers.
00:41:12The level of the mudflow reached almost to the top of the building in the background.
00:41:18And yet, a safe elevation is right behind.
00:41:23Here we see the high bark of the mudflow.
00:41:40Days after the flood, the soft mud was still treacherous.
00:41:44It was 15 feet deep and had swallowed up cattle and humans alike.
00:41:52To cross it required some ingenuity.
00:41:59MUSIC PLAYS
00:42:01MUSIC PLAYS
00:42:30ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
00:42:50Here we can see cows that sank into the mud days ago. They are irretrievable. They will die here.
00:43:22And then human remains. In the magnitude of the tragedy, they were still left where they died.
00:43:50ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
00:43:54The crafts wanted to see the source of the disaster, the summit of Nevada del Ruiz, over 17,000 feet
00:44:03high.
00:44:05This is where the flood had come down.
00:44:14The marks in the rock show the gigantic magnitude of the lahar.
00:44:27ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
00:44:31Peasants tried to reach cut-off villages that had suffered great loss of life as well.
00:44:40ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
00:44:41Bad visibility stopped Katja and Maurice from climbing higher.
00:44:49ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
00:44:50Turning away from the volcano, they focused their attention on the suffering of the survivors.
00:44:56And this marked a fundamental shift in their work.
00:45:00ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
00:45:01They were shocked by the failure to alert the local population.
00:45:06ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
00:45:07In order to raise awareness of the dangers of volcanoes, they were looking for media attention and because of that,
00:45:15they increasingly became the daredevils.
00:45:18ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
00:45:19And parallel to that, their gaze became less scientific and more and more humanistic.
00:45:27ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
00:47:37Could this pollution happen without a volcano, just caused by human behavior?
00:52:31my love, I always forget you and you exige my love.
00:52:39Really, I'm sorry, I'm not going to be able to get in love with you.
00:52:49It's not the same anymore.
00:52:56Only hope that you understand that love should be taken care of
00:53:03and not to play with no one.
00:53:07Because I gave you my love and even without regret,
00:53:15you hurt me to leave.
00:53:18Now you come back, looking for my heat,
00:53:23saying that you've never managed to forget me.
00:53:30But I can tell you once again,
00:53:35you have to understand that it's too late.
00:54:02I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:54:09No niego, fue mucho mi dolor, pero eso ya pasó.
00:54:20Mejor ya nunca vuelvas.
00:54:26Solo espero que entiendas que un amor se debe de cuidar
00:54:34y no jugar con nadie.
00:54:37Porque yo te daba mi querer.
00:54:42Y aun sin merecer, no te dolió dejarme.
00:54:50Ahora vuelves buscando mi calor, diciendo que jamás lograste olvidarme.
00:55:00Pero yo te aclaro de una vez, lo debes de entender.
00:55:09Es demasiado tarde, porque tú quisiste estar allá.
00:55:24Y aun sin merecer, no te dolió dejarme.
00:55:30Y aun sin merecer, no te dolió dejarme.
00:55:36Y aun sin merecer, no te dolió dejarme.
00:55:52And then there is footage the crafts created that has no volcanoes in it.
00:55:59They followed their curiosity.
00:56:02They saw the world no one else had seen.
00:56:07They left behind a mosaic that is mysterious and stunningly original.
00:56:33They were buried in the house and they were told.
00:56:34They were buried in the house when the clouds were buried in ereциated.
00:56:41Then they came back to their city.
00:56:46The temple is buried in the house.
00:59:22Hawaii.
00:59:23The crafts went there repeatedly.
00:59:26This is where there is permanent volcanic activity.
00:59:30This is where fire meets water.
00:59:35It appears to me the crafts were shooting a whole film about creation in the making.
00:59:43They just did not have the time left to edit it.
00:59:58This is where it is.
01:00:05This is where it is.
01:00:19This is where it is.
01:00:22This is where it is.
01:00:38This is where it is.
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