"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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.
Jean Rochefort
Claude Rich
Jacques Perrin
Aurore Clément
Odile Versois
Pierre Rousseau
Jacques Dufilho
François Dyrek
Jean Champion
Bernard Lajarrige
Joseph Momo
Yves Morgan-Jones
Nguyễn Long Cường
Yann Brannelec
Jean Hennau
François Landolt
Hubert Laurent
Loïc Nedellec
Peter Semler
Michel Vocoret
Bruno Cremer
Ludovic Schoendoerffer