Drummer-Crab

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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.

6.574

120 min

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

Joseph Momo

as Bongo-Ba

Yves Morgan-Jones

as Ensign

Nguyễn Long Cường

Yann Brannelec

Jean Hennau

François Landolt

as Bugler Bochau

Hubert Laurent

as Fishing officer

Loïc Nedellec

Pierre Semmler

Michel Vocoret

Bruno Cremer

as Adjutant Willsdorf (uncredited)

Ludovic Schoendoerffer

as Breton kid (uncredited)

Director

Pierre Schoendoerffer