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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.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