Drummer-Crab

"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.

• Pierre SchoendoerfferDirector
• Jean-François ChauvelScreenplay
• Philippe SardeOriginal Music Composer
• Pierre SchoendoerfferScreenplay

• Jean RochefortCaptain, commander of the escort ship
• Claude RichPierre, medical officer
• Jacques PerrinLieutenant Willsdorff, 'Le Crabe-Tambour'
• Aurore ClémentAurore, nurse in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
• Odile VersoisThe wife at the bistro of the former gendarme
• Pierre RousseauBabourg, former sailor
• Jacques DufilhoChief mechanic
• François DyrekFormer gendarme, boss of the bistro
• Jean ChampionAdmiral Dönitz's admirer at the bistro
• Bernard LajarrigeRector
• Joseph MomoBongo-Ba
• Yves Morgan-JonesEnsign