Exactly twenty years ago, Haroun Tazieff, one of the fathers of contemporary volcanology, passed away. Scientist, boxer, resistance fighter, mountaineer, speleologist, filmmaker and even minister, this man with a fiery temperament spent his entire life confronting volcanoes to extract their secrets and pass them on to the world. Based on archives and testimonies, this film retraces the exceptional life of the man Jean Cocteau called “the poet of fire”.
