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.
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (15)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Bela Productions
- Co-productions : Lira Films, AMLF, Renn Productions, TF1 Films Production
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : AMLF
Full credits (20)
- Executive Producer : Georges De Beauregard
- Adaptation : Pierre Schoendoerffer
- Producers : Georges De Beauregard, Raymond Danon, Claude Berri
- Dialogue Writer : Pierre Schoendoerffer
- Music Composer : Philippe Sarde
- Assistant directors : Marc Angelo, Philippe Charigot, Léonard Guillain, Robert Le Corre, Nguyen Long
- Screenwriter : Pierre Schoendoerffer
- Director of Photography : Raoul Coutard
- Sound Recordist : Raymond Adam
- Editors : Nguyen Long, Michel Lavigne, Jean-Guy Montpetit
- Author of original work : Pierre Schoendoerffer
- Assistant Operators : Georges Liron, Dominique Merlin
- Camera Operator : Jean Garcenot
- Production Manager : Georges Pellegrin
- Continuity supervisor : Patrick Aubrée
- Production Designer : Clément Hurel
- Foley artist : Daniel Couteau
- Sound Mixer : Jean Nény
- Still Photographer : Patrick Chauvel
- Unit Production Managers : Patrick Millet, Marcel Mossotti
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : War
- Production language : French
- Premier pays de production : France
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1977
- French release : 09/11/1977
- Runtime : 1 h 59 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 46324
- Visa issue date : 03/11/1977
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Mono
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