Le Crabe-Tambour. movie clip-01 ( Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1977 - eng sub )

"Le Crabe-Tambour" ( "Drummer-Crab", 1977 ) Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer A dying French naval frigate captain tries to make a last rendezvous in the winter storm-tossed seas off the Grand Banks, with "le crabe tambour," a French war hero he had betrayed twenty years earlier. "Le crabe 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 "crabe tambour" and his trawler, The Shamrock, is now a legend among the Grand Banks fishermen. _ _ _ "Pierre Schoendoerffer obituary" Ronald Bergan, 15.03.2012 _ _ _