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Fire of Love

Maurice would return to Stromboli at age 19, feeling at once ecstasy and loneliness

Maurice would return to Stromboli at age 19, feeling at once ecstasy and loneliness

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Maurice would return to Stromboli
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at age 19,
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feeling at once ecstasy and loneliness.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
45
Timestamp in Movie
00:09:50
Uploaded
Mar 27, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography
Production
Sandbox Films,Cottage M,Intuitive Pictures,National Geographic Documentary Films

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Movie Summary

Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.
Growing up in the rubble of postwar Alsace, - Fire of Love 00:10
Growing up in the rubble of postwar Alsace,
They take refuge in the mysteries of the natural world. - Fire of Love 00:06
They take refuge in the mysteries of the natural world.
The Vosges and Rhine fault lines shifting imperceptibly beneath them. - Fire of Love 00:07
The Vosges and Rhine fault lines shifting imperceptibly bene...
At the end of this version, the café closes and it begins to rain. - Fire of Love 00:07
At the end of this version, the café closes and it begins to...
November 19th, 1967, - Fire of Love 00:10
November 19th, 1967,
The territory once colonized as French Indochina. - Fire of Love 00:05
The territory once colonized as French Indochina.
One week later, - Fire of Love 00:07
One week later,
The next day, they show up on the front page of L'Humanité. - Fire of Love 00:06
The next day, they show up on the front page of L'Human...
But human pursuits of power begin to feel vain and absurd - Fire of Love 00:08
But human pursuits of power begin to feel vain and absurd
It's also the plate tectonic revolution, - Fire of Love 00:08
It's also the plate tectonic revolution,
They devour each hypothesis, each myth. - Fire of Love 00:05
They devour each hypothesis, each myth.
Everything that has been gleaned so far from the archives of the Earth. - Fire of Love 00:07
Everything that has been gleaned so far from the archives of...
They wonder what forms and re-forms the world. - Fire of Love 00:06
They wonder what forms and re-forms the world.
To these mysteries they long to get closer. - Fire of Love 00:06
To these mysteries they long to get closer.
With just enough grant money and a donated car, - Fire of Love 00:10
With just enough grant money and a donated car,
Katia is the geochemist, - Fire of Love 00:06
Katia is the geochemist,
Except the car breaks down 27 times. - Fire of Love 00:05
Except the car breaks down 27 times.
Undeterred, they spend the next few summers - Fire of Love 00:08
Undeterred, they spend the next few summers
Katia and Maurice are after - Fire of Love 00:13
Katia and Maurice are after
What is it, they ask, that makes the Earth's heart beat? - Fire of Love 00:06
What is it, they ask, that makes the Earth's heart beat...