Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
"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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.
The bill
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
- Jean Champion — Admiral Dönitz's admirer at the bistro
- Bernard Lajarrige — Rector
- Joseph Momo — Bongo-Ba
- Yves Morgan-Jones — Ensign
- Nguyễn Long Cường
- Yann Brannelec
- Jean Hennau
- Directed
- Pierre Schoendoerffer
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 71 ratings
- Studio
- AMLF, Bela Productions, Lira Films, Renn Productions, TF1
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