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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.
00:11:37rokodira.
00:11:39He hit the hai-k次, where he actually noticed the fortress.
00:12:06He gave birth of his mare to perpendicular to the volcano, which we thought was maybe but not good.
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.
00:16:03Here we are.
00:16:05Here we go.
00:16:07Here we go.
00:16:21Here we go.
00:16:32I don't know.
00:17:00When both were near the crater itself, a massive explosion released a gigantic pyroclastic flow.
00:17:09Inside the cloud, temperatures can reach way over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit and the cloud can travel its speeds up to
00:17:18400 miles an hour.
00:17:20The 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.
00:17:52I don't know.
00:17:52I don't know.
00:18:21It was a long way for the crafts.
00:18:23It 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.
00:18:47Maurice, still boyish, looks uncomfortable on camera.
00:18:53Katja appears to be aimless, just embellishing a shot.
00:18:59Most 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.
00:21:34Their 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.
00:22:21They shoot several takes.
00:22:23Watch the guy in the background.
00:22:26Watch the guy in the background.
00:22:26I 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 the idea quickly.
00:22:57Soon, the crafts were able to attract sponsors.
00:23:02They 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.
00:24:20At the same time, they became filmmakers.
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.
00:25:12She 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, enough 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.
00:25:56A 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.
00:26:21His name is Joseph.
00:26:24He stops here.
00:26:32He is a champion.
00:26:36His name is Joseph.
00:26:39The Ternak of the Moon.
00:26:40The end of the film is, he is the one of the most influential ones.
00:26:44In the past films of Ternak of the film,
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.
00:28:14I cannot live without volcanoes.
00:28:42I cannot live without volcanoes.
00:29:08I cannot live without volcanoes.
00:29:20I cannot live without volcanoes.
00:30:03I cannot live without volcanoes.
00:30:08I cannot live without volcanoes.
00:30:38The 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.
00:30:51Seismic 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, 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.
00:31:51But approaching 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.
00:32:1620 miles away from the volcano, first signs of devastation.
00:32:3821 miles away by Volaline.
00:32:43Reine, I want you
00:32:50Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:33:22Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:33:53Oh, oh, oh.
00:33:56Oh, oh, oh.
00:34:26Oh, oh, oh.
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.
00:34:42Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:35:11Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:35:41Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:35:59Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:36:08Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:36:13Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:36:48Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:37:12Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:37:13Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:37:19Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:37:50Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
00:37:53oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
00:37:54oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:37:54an eruption occurred. It was only 3% of what was ejected from Mount St. Helens. But the glowing
00:38:03lava and pyroclastic flows melted the ice almost instantly. The white summit turned dark. This was
00:38:14filmed by the crafts a few days after the event. And this is the flank of the mountain where the
00:38:22water and mud came down, growing larger and larger. So-called lahars formed.
00:38:35What we see here was filmed by the crafts years earlier in the Alps of Italy. It is completely
00:38:43unrelated to Nevado del Ruiz. But we can get an idea what came down in Colombia. Water,
00:38:53eroded soil and dislodged rocks came sweeping down. However, the lahar in Colombia was 100 feet deep.
00:39:30It took more than an hour until it reached the town of Armea. It took more than an hour
00:39:34due to the town of Pazero, some 30 miles away. By then, the huge stream had widened to a
00:39:40kilometer, sweeping through the town. Out 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.
00:41:57The high bark of the mudflow, the high bark of the mudflow reached the sea.
00:42:10The water rose to the ground.
00:42:10The water rose to the ground.
00:42:30Over the remains of Armero hovered the stench of carrion.
00:42:36There 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.
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00:45:26The girl, you call the lady again.
00:45:34In the band, you call the lady.
00:45:43My god, you may remember.
00:46:03Oh
00:47:18These traffic scenes were shot at midday.
00:47:24It took hours until some light returned.
00:47:28Dust was everywhere and a thought creeps up to me that we are watching a scenario of the future.
00:47:36Could this pollution happen without a volcano just caused by human behavior?
00:47:44Dust was everywhere.
00:48:03I'll see you next time.
00:48:29I'll see you next time.
00:48:53I'll see you next time.
00:49:33I'll see you next time.
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00:53:12I'll see you next time.
00:53:43No,
00:54:00I'll see you next time.
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00:59:36I'll see you next time.
00:59:37I'll see you next time.
00:59:39I'll see you next time.
00:59:39a whole film about creation in the making.
00:59:43They just did not have the time left to edit it.
01:00:10. . .
01:07:16A good part of what we discover in the archive of the crafts is sheer hardship.
01:07:24Many of the viewers of this will probably be glad not to be there, but I would give
01:07:31much if I could have much if I could have been their companion.
01:08:08This is what I would say, but I would say, this is what I would say, this is what the
01:08:29Mexicans
01:08:30is, it's a joy, it's a goodwill will do, but I would say, this is what I would say.
01:08:30It's all of their voyages, cars, horses, and we pray the horses will make it.
01:08:36...que eran cosas de los dos, nunca tú debiste decidirlo, pues mira, ya aprendiste la lección.
01:09:06Te fuiste sin decirme los motivos, y yo me preguntaba qué pasó, el tiempo se te fue pasando, y ahora
01:09:21tú me dices que quieres regresar.
01:09:29Y vienes a contarme tu tristeza, y quieres aclarar la situación, pretendes que yo olvide los detalles, que perdone todo,
01:09:47y volvamos a empezar.
01:09:50Nadie sabe lo que tiene, hasta que lo ve perdido, nunca tú debiste decidirlo, pues creo que eran cosas de
01:10:09los dos.
01:10:10Nunca tú debiste decidirlo, pues mira, ya aprendiste la lección.
01:10:32Nunca tú debiste decidirlo, pues creo que eran cosas de los dos.
01:10:41Nunca tú debiste decidirlo, nunca tú debiste decidirlo, pues mira, ya aprendiste la lección.
01:10:53Nadie sabe lo que tiene, hasta que lo ve perdido, nunca tú debiste decidirlo.
01:11:07Nunca tú debiste decidirlo, pues creo que eran cosas de los dos, nunca tú debiste decidirlo, pues mira, ya aprendiste
01:11:22la lección.
01:11:35Nunca tú debiste decidirlo, nunca tú debiste decidirlo, nunca tú debiste decidirlo, pues mira, ya aprendiste la lección.
01:11:54Nunca tú debiste decidirlo, nunca tú debiste decidirlo, nunca tú debiste decidirlo, nunca tú debiste decidirlo, nunca tú debiste decidirlo.
01:12:04Back in Japan, Mount Unsen, June 2, 1991.
01:12:10The situation is unchanged, no eruption, no big periclastic flow.
01:12:19The craftss in Harry Glicken are holding their position, musing about the small events at the volcano.
01:12:27Maybe the events they talk about, you know, when they say 20 periclastic flows per day, maybe they say it's
01:12:36because of the seismicity.
01:12:38So maybe they even count the small ones, very small ones.
01:12:41Maybe they don't really see them, they just small ones.
01:12:44No, I just, uh-huh.
01:12:53Harry Glicken decides to make better use of his time.
01:12:57He leaves the crafts with their cameras in order to study sediments in the river flowing from the volcano.
01:13:06His story is curious.
01:13:08He had unbelievable luck when Mount St. Helens exploded some ten years prior.
01:13:15He held an observation outpost close to the volcano.
01:13:20After working six days straight, he had to leave for an interview with his university.
01:13:28His research advisor, despite safety concerns, volunteered to replace him at his post.
01:13:36This volunteer died in the cataclysm of that day.
01:13:41In the lottery of the universe, Harry Glicken this time would make his fatal move.
01:13:49He rejoined the crafts at their camera position and thus died with them.
01:14:02Up near the mountain, boredom has taken hold.
01:14:06Many of the camera people are sleeping.
01:14:17The volcano, only partially visible, is just quiet.
01:14:23Later we will learn that even this position, just outside the exclusion zone, is not safe.
01:14:31The pyroclastic flow will wipe it out as well.
01:14:40Only some locals make it to safety.
01:14:50And now what we see appears to be from a new vantage point.
01:14:55The Japanese cameraman who shot this image probably has joined the crafts to move into an advanced position.
01:15:05It was their last.
01:15:08What remains of the crafts are their amazing images.
01:15:13Fort Sam.
01:15:18Fort Sam.lamation
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01:15:43to their archive, we discover images, not only of volcanoes, but landscapes that nobody
01:15:51has ever filmed like them.
01:16:03Some of it has a quality of dreams.
01:16:07Like in the biblical apocalypse, stones are raining from the sky.
01:16:48And rocks are giving up their assigned nature just to solidly sit there.
01:16:55They tumble.
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01:17:25And plants and creatures and our whole planet seem to be somewhere in outer space.
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01:18:05ORCHESTRA PLAYS
01:18:27MINUTES AWAY FROM THE CATASTROPHY,
01:18:30MOUNT UNZEN HAS RELEASED A MASSIVE PYROGLASTIC FLOW.
01:18:38WE HAVE THE RADIO CONTACT OF OUR JAPANESE CAMERAMAN WITH HIS BASE.
01:18:47THEY ORDER HIM TO EVACUATE AT ONCE.
01:18:51HE'S AFRAID BUT STILL TAKES A TIME TO WIPE HIS LENS.
01:19:01ONLY NOW HE FLEES AND WHILE HE FLEES HE STILL KEEPS FILMING.
01:19:32AND ONLY MOMENTS LATER THE END.
01:19:35MOUNT UNZEN EXPLODES.
01:19:39A GIGANTIC PYROGLASTIC FLOW COMES RUSHING DOWN.
01:19:42NO ONE IN ITS PART WILL SURVIVE.
01:20:12MOUNT UNZEN
01:20:24MOUNT UNZEN
01:20:42MOUNT UNZEN
01:20:57MOUNT UNZEN
01:21:00MOUNT UNZEN
01:21:01MOUNT UNZEN
01:21:27MOUNT UNZEN
01:21:27MOUNT UNZEN
01:21:28MOUNT UNZEN
01:21:44edges of the flow.
01:22:06The remains of Katya and Maurice were cremated in Japan and their ashes are buried here together
01:22:14in the grave of Katya's family.
01:22:19They're back now in Elsass, their home.
01:22:23In their lives together they walked along a precipice.
01:22:32In their love they became one.
01:22:35This shot was made by Maurice walking with the camera, the abyss too close.
01:22:42Katya must have held him so he wouldn't fall.
01:23:05Because of this unity and this togetherness, they were able to descend into the inferno
01:23:13and wrestle an image from the very claws of the devil.
01:23:18And that is why I wanted to make this film for them.
01:23:22The sea of the sea-satum sound and fire.
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