MOVIE
Drummer-Crab
Le Crabe-Tambour
DramaWar
"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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.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
Jean ChampionAdmiral Dönitz's admirer at the bistro
Bernard LajarrigeRector- Joseph MomoBongo-Ba
- Yves Morgan-JonesEnsign
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