Big Blue, The (Director’s Cut)(1988)

Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship
started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not
real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and
used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques’ father, who was a
diver too, died in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and
Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown
up, Johanna, a young clerk in a security office, has to go to Peru.
There she meets Jacques who works for a group of scientists. He dives
for some minutes into ice-cold water and the scientists monitor his
physical state that is more like a dolphin’s than a human’s. Johanna can
not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she’s
unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later, back in her
office, she notices a championship for divers that is supposed to take
place in Taormina, Italy. In order to see Jacques again she makes up a
story so the firm sends her to Italy for business purposes. In Taormina
there is also Enzo, the reigning diving world champion. He knows that
only Jacques can challenge and probably beat him. This time Johanna and
Jacques get closer, but Jacques, being more a dolphin than a man, can
not really commit and his rivalry with Enzo pushes both men into
dangerous territory..

1988, 168 min.