
"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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.
Captain, commander of the escort ship

Pierre, medical officer

Lieutenant Willsdorff, 'Le Crabe-Tambour'

Aurore, nurse in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

The wife at the bistro of the former gendarme

Babourg, former sailor

Chief mechanic

Former gendarme, boss of the bistro

Admiral Dönitz's admirer at the bistro

Rector

Bongo-Ba
Ensign
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Bugler Bochau
Fishing officer
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Adjutant Willsdorf (uncredited)

Breton kid (uncredited)
