Overview
"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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.
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
François Landolt
Bugler Bochau
Hubert Laurent
Fishing officer
Bruno Cremer
Adjutant Willsdorf (uncredited)
Ludovic Schoendoerffer
Breton kid (uncredited)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Byzantium
Police Python 357
Fantasia Among the Squares
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Billy Elliot
Matilda
The Godfather
Joker
Baby Driver
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Theory of Everything
Forrest Gump
Blade Runner 2049
Righteous Kill
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Frozen
Blade Runner
Dunkirk
Legally Blonde