The Couple Who Fell in Love—and Died—on a Volcano

BURNING LOVE

Katia and Maurice Krafft spent their lives researching volcanoes. And it’s where they met their fate. The filmmakers behind “Fire of Love” tell us what we can learn from them.

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There’s an abundance of metaphors to be made surrounding volcanoes. They erupt from you, one could say.

It’s a whole other thing to make that figurative language and those themes literal: Katia and Maurice Krafft fell in love and died on

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