Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot.
Acting
Delon and Ventura's simmering codependency—two legends refusing to blink.
Cinematography
Underwater treasure sequences that look impossibly gorgeous for 1967.
Direction
Enrico turns a simple heist into an existential drowning.
Director
Robert Enrico
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Delon and Ventura were France's biggest stars but rarely worked together—this was their only full collaboration, and their mutual suspicion onscreen was reportedly not entirely acting.
The Congo setting is treated as pure backdrop, a choice that reads increasingly uncomfortable—this is fundamentally a film about white men importing their damage to Africa and calling it adventure.
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