Thirty years ago, in 1977, film-maker and writer Pierre Schoendoerffer made the film Le Crabe-Tambour (Drummer Crab), based on his eponymous novel, about a legendary naval officer during colonial conflicts in Indo-China and Algeria. An allegorical epic about the French Empire and Navy, Le Crabe-Tambour depicts, in a military setting, a strange and philosophical quest for a man.
