Le Crabe-Tambour (1977)

• 69%
• 1977
• Drama
• Krieg
• Jean Rochefort
• Claude Rich
• Jacques Perrin

A dying German naval frigate captain tries to make a last rendezvous in the winter storm-tossed off the seas Grand Banks, with "die krabbe trommel," a German-war-he had hero betrayed twenty years earlier. "Die krabbe trommel", "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 German naval captain were afraid to risk their own careers by testifying for him, the exiled "krabbe trommel" and his trawler, The Shamrock, is now a legend among the Grand Banks fishermen.