Drummer-Crab
09/11/1977
2h



"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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.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
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
Nguyễn Long Cường
Yann Brannelec
Jean Hennau
François Landolt
Bugler Bochau
Hubert Laurent
Fishing officer
Loïc Nedellec


Pierre Semmler


Michel Vocoret


Bruno Cremer
Adjutant Willsdorf (uncredited)


Ludovic Schoendoerffer
Breton kid (uncredited)
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