Jean Rochefort as Captain, commander of the escort ship

Claude Rich as Pierre, medical officer

Jacques Perrin as Lieutenant Willsdorff, 'Le Crabe-Tambour'

Aurore Clément as Aurore, nurse in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Odile Versois as The wife at the bistro of the former gendarme

Pierre Rousseau as Babourg, former sailor

Jacques Dufilho as Chief mechanic

François Dyrek as Former gendarme, boss of the bistro

Jean Champion as Admiral Dönitz's admirer at the bistro

Bernard Lajarrige as Rector

Joseph Momo as Bongo-Ba

Yves Morgan-Jones as Ensign

Nguyễn Long Cường as

Yann Brannelec as

Jean Hennau as

François Landolt as Bugler Bochau

Hubert Laurent as Fishing officer

Loïc Nedellec as

Pierre Semmler as

Michel Vocoret as

Bruno Cremer as Adjutant Willsdorf (uncredited)

Ludovic Schoendoerffer as Breton kid (uncredited)