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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.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