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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.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