Le crabe tambour

Le crabe tambour movie poster.

Movie (1976)
English title: Drummer-Crab

Starring:
Jacques Perrin (Wilsdorff aka le Crabe-Tambour)
Claude Rich (le Docteur / the doctor)
Jean Rochefort (le Commandant alias le vieux crabe / the captain aka "old crab")
Jacques Dufilho (le Chef mécano / major of mechanics)

A dying French naval frigate captain tries to make a last rendezvous in the winter storm-tossed seas off the Grand Banks... During the fall of South Vietnam, he remembers with the doctor a French war hero nicknamed "Le crabe tambour" (the drummer crab), first in the war in French Indochina, then prisoner of african tribes and then again in the "Generals' Revolt" in Algeria. (please note that aircraft are shown in order of appearence)

Aérospatiale SA 321 Super Frelon

Super Frelon hoovering over the ship Jauréguiberry

Breguet Br 1150 Atlantic

AMD-BA (Breguet Aviation) ATL1

Sud Aviation HSS-1

Sud Aviation HSS-1, license built of the S-58/H-34

Sud Aviation SA 319B Alouette III

Sud Aviation Alouette III SA 319B in the background of Jacques Dufilho

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See also

• Le crabe tambour at IMDb
• Le crabe tambour at French Wikipedia.fr
• Le crabe tambour at allocine.fr