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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.

Top Cast

Jean RochefortCaptain, commander of the escort ship

Claude RichPierre, medical officer

Jacques PerrinLieutenant Willsdorff, 'Le Crabe-Tambour'

Aurore ClémentAurore, nurse in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Odile VersoisThe wife at the bistro of the former gendarme

Pierre RousseauBabourg, former sailor

Jacques DufilhoChief mechanic

François DyrekFormer gendarme, boss of the bistro