Le Crabe-Tambour

Jean Rochefort

Captain, commander of the escort ship

Claude Rich

Pierre, medical officer

Jacques Perrin

Lieutenant Willsdorff, 'Le Crabe-Tambour'

Aurore Clément

Aurore, nurse in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Odile Versois

The wife at the bistro of the former gendarme

Pierre Rousseau

Babourg, former sailor

Jacques Dufilho

Chief mechanic

François Dyrek

Former gendarme, boss of the bistro

Jean Champion

Admiral Dönitz's admirer at the bistro

Bernard Lajarrige

Rector

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Joseph Momo

Bongo-Ba

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Yves Morgan-Jones

Ensign

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Nguyễn Long Cường

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Yann Brannelec

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Jean Hennau

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François Landolt

Bugler Bochau

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Hubert Laurent

Fishing officer

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Loïc Nedellec

Pierre Semmler

Michel Vocoret

Bruno Cremer

Adjutant Willsdorf (uncredited)

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Ludovic Schoendoerffer

Breton kid (uncredited)