Overview
"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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.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
- Jean Rochefort as Captain, commander of the escort ship
- Claude Rich as Pierre, medical officer
- Jacques Perrin as Lieutenant Willsdorff, 'Le Crabe-Tambour'
- Aurore Clément as Aurore, nurse in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
- Odile Versois as The wife at the bistro of the former gendarme
- Pierre Rousseau as Babourg, former sailor
- Jacques Dufilho as Chief mechanic
- François Dyrek as Former gendarme, boss of the bistro
- Jean Champion as Admiral Dönitz's admirer at the bistro
- Bernard Lajarrige as Rector