
Drummer-Crab ·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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.
Drama
War
- Release Date
Nov 09, 1977
- Popularity: 0.6531
- 61 votes
- Directed by
Pierre Schoendoerffer
- Screenplay by
Jean-François ChauvelPierre Schoendoerffer
- Productions
AMLF (FR)Bela Productions (FR)Lira Films (FR)Renn Productions (FR)TF1 (FR)
- Budget
Revenue: NA
Duration: 2h 0 min
Top 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
Crew & Team

Pierre Schoendoerffer
Director