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"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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.
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Audiences 69GoodWatch 67
IMDb6.9
Running time
2 h
A typical length for dramas, +11 min on the typical 109
typical 109120Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 25 countries, rent or buy in 4 more
+15Released
1977
November 9, 1977
49 years ago
Genres
DramaWarLanguage
French
Original language
Made in
- France
César Awards1978
- Best Actor1978Won
- Best Actor1978Won
- Best Supporting Actor1978Won
- Best Supporting Actor1978Won
- Best Cinematography1978Won
- Best Film1978Nominated
- Best Director1978Nominated
- Best Music Written for a Film1978Nominated
and 9 more16 people
- 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- JMJoseph MomoBongo-Ba
- YMYves Morgan-JonesEnsign
- FLFrançois LandoltBugler Bochau
- HLHubert LaurentFishing officer
Bruno CremerAdjutant Willsdorf (uncredited)
Ludovic SchoendoerfferBreton kid (uncredited)
Directing · 1
- Pierre Schoendoerffer Director, Novel, Screenplay
Writing · 1
- Jean-François Chauvel Screenplay
Camera · 1
- Raoul Coutard Director of Photography
Editing · 3
- Michèle Lavigne Editor
- Jean-Guy Montpetit Editor
- Colette Landoz Editor
Sound · 1
- Philippe Sarde Original Music Composer
Costume & Make-Up · 1
- Serge Groffe Makeup Artist
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