Le Crabe-Tambour
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Francois Dyrek
Odile Versois
Peter Semier
Francois Landolt
Jean Rochefort
Film Details
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Synopsis
A dying French naval frigate captain tries to make a last rendezvous in the winter storm-tossed seas off the Grand Banks, with "le crab tambour," a French war hero he had betrayed twenty years earlier. "Le crab tambour" the drummer crab" was a boyhood nickname for the handsome young Alsatian whom the film depicts proving his courage, first in the war in French Indochina, and then again in the "Generals' Revolt" in Algeria. Courtmartialed because friends like the French naval captain were afraid to risk their own careers by testifying for him, the exiled "crab tambour" and his trawler, The Shamrock, is now a legend among the Grand Banks fishermen.
Director
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Cast
Francois Dyrek
Odile Versois
Peter Semier
Francois Landolt
Jean Rochefort
Jacques Perrin
Hubert Laurent
Jacques Dufilho
Joseph Momo
Bernard Lajarrige
Claude Rich
Morgan-jones
Pierre Rousseau
Jean Champion
Fred Personne
Aurore Cltment
Crew
Raymond Adam
Patrick Aubree
Georges De Beauregard
Andre Clement
Raoul Coutard
Pierre Dubrulle
Jean Garcenot
Serge Groffe
Leonard Guillain
Colette Landoz
Nguyen Long
Dominique Merlin
Patrick Millet
Marcel Mossotti
Georges Pellegrin
Michel Picard
Philippe Sarde
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Michel Vocoret
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1977
Released in United States 1978
Released in United States 1977
Released in United States 1978 (Shown at FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Contemporary Cinema) April 13 - May 7, 1978.)
