Drummer-Crab (1977)
Le Crabe-Tambour
"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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.
- Date of release
- 1977-11-09
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (73)
- Runtime
- 2h 0m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Director
- Pierre Schoendoerffer
Casting
- 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
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