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The Fire Within A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022) [Full Movie] [Official Release]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.
00:12:05And I thought that's the only real thing that you have to be in the middle of the world.
00:12:06And then, seeing you through the building, being built across the building is the most important thing.
00:14:07Thirsty 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 like hurrying them up.
00:15:25They made it to safety.
00:15:27There was no danger for them anymore.
00:15:31And then this.
00:15:32The entire island exploded.
00:15:36Later Katja writes in her diary, we would have been cooked in a second.
00:15:51Three years later, 1986, the crafts were lucky again.
00:15:57A helicopter took them to the volcano St. Augustine in Alaska.
00:16:32And then there is always a new one, yeah?
00:16:32And then there is a new one.
00:16:33Don't you know what's coming.
00:17:00To be continued...
00:17:03itself, a massive explosion released a gigantic pyroclastic flow. Inside the cloud, temperatures
00:17:12can reach way over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit and the cloud can travel its speeds up to
00:17:18400 miles an hour. The 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, doesn't flee either.
00:18:21It was a long way for the crafts to become the figures in the world.
00:18:25In their later films. This here is Iceland 1968. They 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.
00:18:47Maurice, still boyish, looks uncomfortable on camera.
00:18:53Katja appears to be aimless, just embellishing a shot. Most of the time, she disappears quickly.
00:19:091970, they were on the Italian island of Vulcano. The crater is inactive, except for some escaping steam.
00:19:21The film looks like home movies made by tourists. Everything 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. Maurice monitoring seismic activities,
00:19:54and 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.
00:21:34Their 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, they shoot several takes.
00:22:24Watch the guy in the background.
00:22:26I love his fake acting.
00:22:28I love his fake acting.
00:22:30I love his fake acting.
00:22:30I love his fake acting.
00:22:31I love his fake acting.
00:22:33Katja 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 the 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
00:23:10Moolhaus in Alsas.
00:23:16Maurice began a phase where he styled himself after the world-renowned underwater filmmaker Jacques Cousteau,
00:23:24wearing his trademark red woolen cap and smoking a pipe.
00:23:34The 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 a scale.
00:23:51Here in Yosemite, she is hit by some drops of hot water.
00:23:57For the camera, they repeat it several times, all fake.
00:24:23It's a big deal.
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.
00:24:47They film others doing science.
00:24:59Katja becomes a sound recordist using state-of-the-art microphones and tape recorders.
00:25:12She also takes the role of photographer.
00:25:16Her pictures were published in magazines and a book.
00:25:20More than 400,000 pictures of hers are in the archive.
00:25:26Enough to fill several more volumes.
00:25:30And here, like out of a fog, Maurice's real persona seems to emerge.
00:25:38The mask comes off.
00:25:40His face raw, grown up.
00:25:43Just him.
00:25:49And at the same time, as if out of nowhere, the images become grandiose.
00:25:57A great filmmaker is born.
00:26:02This is Iceland 1973.
00:26:04The 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.
00:26:21Of the rest of the day.
00:26:30Oh no, no!
00:26:40I've beenそしてovers.
00:26:45You don't know anything.
00:26:49Oh no, no.
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.
00:28:03And it is certainly the same with Katja.
00:28:08She clearly expressed it in an interview.
00:28:11I cannot live without volcanoes.
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00:30:291980, Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington.
00:30:33In fact, this image was taken years before.
00:30:37The volcano still has its pointed peak covered in snow.
00:30:41A series of earthquakes and steam venting episodes beginning in March signaled a major event.
00:30:51Seismic recordings went wild.
00:30:57On May 18, 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, everything was obliterated.
00:31:25And up to a distance of 19 miles, the shockwave flattened every single tree.
00:31:40Katja and Maurice, having acquired a reputation to be the earliest on a scene, this time came a few days
00:31:48late.
00:31:52Approaching the zone of destruction, everything looks normal.
00:31:56The forests are still standing.
00:32:03Then, 20 miles away from the volcano, first signs of devastation.
00:32:14Rainy!
00:32:24Rainy!
00:32:27Rainy!
00:32:31Rainy!
00:32:32Rainy!
00:32:39Rainy!
00:32:41Rainy!
00:32:43Rainy!
00:32:48Rainy!
00:32:49Rainy!
00:32:50Rainy!
00:32:56Rainy!
00:33:00Rainy!
00:33:01Rainy!
00:33:01Rainy!
00:33:01Rainy!
00:33:01Rainy!
00:35:23They are no longer volcanologists.
00:35:26There are artists who carry us, the spectators, away in 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.
00:35:41We can only watch in awe.
00:36:12We can only watch in awe.
00:36:12We can only watch in awe.
00:36:16We can only watch in awe.
00:36:41We can only watch in awe.
00:36:45We can only watch in awe.
00:36:54We can only watch in awe.
00:37:07We can only watch in awe.
00:37:12We can only watch in awe.
00:37:15We can only watch in awe.
00:37:18We can only watch in awe.
00:37:18We can only watch in awe.
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 Nevada del Ruiz in Colombia.
00:37:41Its peak was covered with glaciers and snow that had accumulated for decades.
00:37:48At 9.09 p.m. on November 13th, 1985, an eruption occurred.
00:37:56It was only 3% of what was ejected from Mount St. Helens.
00:38:03But the glowing lava and pyroclastic flows melted the ice almost instantly.
00:38:10The white summit turned dark.
00:38:12This 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, growing larger and larger.
00:38:27So-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 Nevada del Ruiz.
00:38:46But we can get an idea what came down in Colombia.
00:38:52Water, eroded soil and dislodged rocks came sweeping down.
00:38:59However, the lahar in Colombia was 100 feet deep.
00:39:30It took more than an hour until it reached the town of Armenia.
00:39:34The city of Nero, 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.
00:41:58The deadmole is left behind.
00:42:05The trees were lost in the middle of the mud.
00:42:05The deadmole is left behind.
00:42:30Over the remains of Armero hovered the stench of carrion, there was silence.
00:42:50Here we can see cows that sank into the mud days ago.
00:42:56They are irretrievable.
00:42:58They will die here.
00:43:21And then human remains.
00:43:25In the magnitude of the tragedy, they were still left where they died.
00:43:54The crafts wanted to see the source of the disaster.
00:43:58The summit of Nevada del Ruiz, over 17,000 feet high.
00:44:05This is where the flood had come down.
00:44:13The marks in the rock show the gigantic magnitude of the lahar.
00:44:31Peasants tried to reach cut-off villages that had suffered great loss of life as well.
00:44:41Bad visibility stopped Katja and Maurice from climbing higher.
00:44:49Turning 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.
00:45:00They were shocked by the failure to alert the local population.
00:45:06In order to raise awareness of the dangers of volcanoes, they were looking for media attention.
00:45:13And because of that, they increasingly became the daredevils.
00:45:18And parallel to that, their gaze became less scientific and more and more humanistic.
00:45:25In order to understand the story.
00:45:30And for the future, it was more scientific.
00:45:37Evidence of Banana.
00:45:38The background for the many people in Asia.
00:45:43The cars that are on the ground and over the planet.
00:45:47I have no idea of a considerable amount of their shell.
00:45:52I have no idea of a tous.
00:46:57The shift did not happen overnight, as can be seen in footage of the crafts filmed in Indonesia a year
00:47:06before the tragedy of Armero.
00:47:09A volcanic eruption had obscured the sky. Day turned into night.
00:47:18These traffic scenes were shot at midday. It took hours until some light returned.
00:47:29Dust was everywhere, and a thought creeps up to me that we are watching a scenario of the future.
00:47:37Could this pollution happen without a volcano, just caused by human behavior?
00:48:07And a thought creeps up to me, and a thought creeps up to me, and a thought creeps up to
00:48:14me.
00:48:19And a thought creeps up to me.
00:48:46And a thought creeps up to me, and a thought creeps up to me.
00:49:19And a thought creeps up to me, and a thought creeps up to me.
00:49:56And a thought creeps up to me, and a thought creeps up to me.
00:50:42PIANO PLAYS
00:50:55PIANO PLAYS
00:51:41PIANO PLAYS
00:51:43film had its own heartbreak. Destruction, dust, and the agony of a land left and forsaken
00:51:52by God. Or, more banal, are we here in a spaghetti western turned nightmare?
00:52:13If everything failed you, now you want to come back and be happy with me.
00:52:28But you don't think that my love has always forgotten me and you exige my love.
00:52:39I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm not going back to love you.
00:52:49It's not the same.
00:52:55I just hope you understand that a love should be taken care of
00:53:03and not playing with no one.
00:53:07Because I gave you my love
00:53:12and even without regret, it hurt you to leave me.
00:53:17Now you come back, looking for my heat, saying that you've never managed to forget me.
00:53:30But I tell you once again, you have to understand that it's too late.
00:54:00I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:54:09Have you gone back, you're right, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:54:27I only hope that you understand that a love must be taken care of and not play with no one,
00:54:37because I gave you my love and even without deserve it, you did not let me leave.
00:54:48Now you come back, looking for my heat, saying that you never managed to forget me, but I tell you
00:55:04once again, you have to understand that it is too late, because you...
00:55:16You...
00:55:18You...
00:55:19You...
00:55:19You...
00:55:25You...
00:55:26You...
00:55:28You...
00:55:30You...
00:55:55You...
00:56:08You...
00:56:25You...
00:56:26You...
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.
01:24:23Thank you,
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