Drummer-Crab

Directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer

With Jean Rochefort, Claude Rich, Jacques Perrin, Aurore Clément and Odile Versois

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Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.