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