Synopsis
"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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
71 audience votes
Key crew
- Pierre SchoendoerfferDirector
- Jean-François ChauvelScreenplay
- Philippe SardeOriginal Music Composer
- Pierre SchoendoerfferScreenplay
Cast
- 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