Name a film for me - tough challenge for you all, not much to go on

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Right, here's a tough one that's been bugging me for years and years. See if the good folk of RAB can rise to the challenge.

Scene setter....
Late 70s, early 80s sat in the front room of my Granny's house in Scotland. TV on, only me watching it. Mid-afternoon, so not post watershed.

Fragmentary memories of the film....
- think I'm describing the end really, or at least the final third.
- contemporary time period
- colour film, probably 70s/80s
- drama
- two men. One white, one black. I think there's been a shipwreck. They're drifting on a lifeboat/fragment of the wreck.
- dialogue and discussions between them. I remember the mood being contemplative/maudlin.
- I think there might have been shark incidents. I've got a vague memory of an injured/bandaged leg.
- main memory....film finishes on a downbeat mood, with them still drifting. Playing over the end credits is El Condor Pasa (if I could), by Simon & Garfunkel
- Film enRAB, leaving my nine year old self inexplicably tearful and moved. Can't remember my emotions properly, or why specifically the film made me feel how it did. I just remember an overwhelming feeling of sadness and despondency.

What do you reckon? Is there anyone on here that can piece these fragments together into a film? Box of maltesers in the post to anyone who does!
 
Ok, two things...

Firstly - amazing work all of you. I haven't checked fully yet but this looks like it.

Secondly - what the bloody hell terms did you use to Google with. Seriously, I consider myself a shit-hot master of the search engine, and I was just drawing blanks.

Thirdly... um, sorry three things. Who gets the maltesers? I think it was Abbasolutely 40 wasn't it. PM me your address!

Fourthly..... um, among the things I want to mention are...RAB members rock. That's the third "find" recently that has been solved here.

1. This film
2. The piece of music Iguazu by Argentinian composer Gustavo Santaolla
3. The piece of music Gnossiennes No 1 by Erik Satie

Cheers all
 
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