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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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.
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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
- Pierre Rousseau as Babourg, former sailor
- Jacques Dufilho as Chief mechanic
- François Dyrek as Former gendarme, boss of the bistro
- Jean Champion as Admiral Dönitz's admirer at the bistro
- Bernard Lajarrige as Rector
- Joseph Momo as Bongo-Ba
- Yves Morgan-Jones as Ensign
Details
- Director
- Pierre Schoendoerffer
- Released
- November 9, 1977
- Runtime
- 2h
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Studio
- AMLF, Bela Productions and Lira Films
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.5 / 10 from 73 votes
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