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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.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