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When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie — and One of Them Is Werner Herzog

Summary by Open Culture
In 1991, the French husband-and-wife volcanologist-filmmaker team Maurice and Katia Krafft were killed by the flow of ash from the eruption of Mount Unzen in Nagasaki. Inexplicably, Werner Herzog didn’t get around to making a film about them for more than 30 years. These would seem to be ideal subjects for the documentary half of his career, a large portion of which he’s spent on portraits of eccentric, romantic, often foolhardy, and more than o…
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Open Culture broke the news in on Friday, January 2, 2026.
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