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name: "Katia Krafft"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/katia-krafft"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 April 1942"
died: "3 June 1991"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:50:32.735774+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Katia Krafft

Actor. Born 17 April 1942 in Guebwiller, Haut-Rhin, France. Died 3 June 1991.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 April 1942, Guebwiller, Haut-Rhin, France
- **Died:** 3 June 1991
- **Also known as:** Catherine Marie Joséphine Conrad
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2477130, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0991839/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1701875

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Fire of Love*](https://film.one/film/fire-of-love.md) (76)

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## Biography

Katia Krafft was a French volcanologist and filmmaker. Born Catherine Joséphine Conrad on 17 April 1942 in Guebwiller, she studied physics and chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, where she met Maurice Krafft; the couple married in 1970.

Together they travelled the world documenting volcanic eruptions on film and in photographs, often working at close range. Their archive footage has been used in documentaries including *Fire of Love* (2022), in which Krafft appears as Self via archive material. She died with her husband on 3 June 1991 during the eruption of Mount Unzen in Japan.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nationalgeographic.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fire of Love* (2022), Fi1m 76, as Self (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/fire-of-love.md)

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