Le Grand Bleu (1988)

118 min · Adventure, Psychodrama, Romance Film

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Directors

Luc Besson

Cast

Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette, Paul Shenar, Sergio Castellitto, Jean Bouise, Marc Duret, Griffin Dunne, Andréas Voutsinas, Valentina Vargas, Kimberly Beck, Bruce Guerre-Berthelot, Gregory Forstner, Claude Besson, Pierre Semmler, Marika Gevaudan, Jean Rouiller

The story

Children Jacques Mayol and Enzo Molinari grow up in Amorgos, Greece in the 1960s. Enzo challenges Jacques to collect a coin on the sea floor but Jacques refuses. Jacques' father—who harvests shellfish from the seabed using a pump-supplied air hose and helmet—goes diving.

Catalogue themes and tags

1987, Apnoe-Diving, Blue, Boat, Deep Sea, Dolphin, Friendship, Greece, Individualism, Italiener, Italy, Jugendfreund, Konkurent, Kumpels, Mountain Lake, Ocean, Oxygen, Peru, Piano, Pärchen, Selbstmord, Sicily, Spaghetti, Sterben, Swimmingpool, Underwater diving, Unfälle, Wetsuit, Zweikampf, einsam, vater-sohn

Genres

Adventure, Psychodrama, Romance Film

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