It stock & index charts a competition and friendly relationship of real-life champions Jacques Mayol (played by former model Barr) and Enzo Maiorca (renamed in the film as "Enzo Molinari", & played by Reno). A action is divided into deuce timelines - a nascent contention between them divers when tikes, & (when adults) their final competition at a world yours free!-diving championships at the Sicilian town of Taormina. Mayol's seek for love, personal, "wholeness" & a meaning of life & demise occurs as heavy undercurrent of the latter timeline.

Sustaining its extensive underwater scenes & dreamy score, a film hwhen been two praised when beautiful & serene, & within equal measure criticised as existence dull & uneventful. Piece popular around Europe, the film was the commercial failure around North America. the director late freed a yearn Director's Cut on DVD, featuring a different ending and a new score.

When sustaining several of Luc Besson's films, a soundtrack was written by Eric Serra.

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A Omega Professional 600 wristwatch, utilized in that film, has be one of Omega's virtually all sought fallowing products. Besides existence featured in the film, it has since turn into impossible to replicate due to the misused thing.