He devoted his life to revealing the truth of bourgeois morality: Who is Claude Chabrol?

Chabrol, who started his cinema career in the midst of the French New Wave and continued with crime films inspired by Hitchcock and Fritz Lang, was one of the directors who best revealed the umbilical cord of what we call 'crime' with 'property'.

He was born on June 24, 1930 in Paris. Chabrol, who became a well-known director with his first film, Le Beau Serge (Handsome Serge), in 1958, made an average of one film in each subsequent year. After divorcing his first wife, Agnès, he married actress Stéphane Audran and had a son with her, Thomas Chabrol, who became an actor. His third wife is Aurore Paquiss. Claude Chabrol, one of the most important names of world cinema, is one of the founders of the French New Wave movement. He died in Paris on September 12, 2010, at the age of 80.

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker.

Claude Chabrol, who has included more than fifty films in his film career, which started with his first film, Handsome Serge (La Beau Serge) in 1958, was one of the important representatives and pioneers of the motto of the 'New Wave', that is, "personal films with small budgets" can be made. On the other hand, he became a figure with various aspects as a director, never stopping his production, working within the studio system when necessary, and even shooting commercials.

Like other 'New Wave' directors, he grew up in the 'Paris Cinematheque' and entered the cinema by writing in 'Cahiers du Cinema' before starting to make films. The book Alfred Hitchcock, written together with Eric Rohmer in 1957, also contains the first seeds of Chabrol's cinema. One of the masters who will be remembered as important sources of inspiration for Chabrol throughout his career will be Hitchcock and the other will be Fritz Lang.

Photo: Chabrol (right) with one of his favorite actresses, Isabelle Huppert.