Drummer-Crab

  • Drama
  • War
11/9/1977
120

Storyline

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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.

Director:
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Writers:
Jean-François Chauvel
Pierre Schoendoerffer

      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
        Acting
      • Yann Brannelec
        Acting
      • Jean Hennau
        Camera
      • François Landolt
        Bugler Bochau

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