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Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French
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and a member of the
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(''nouvelle vague'') group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries
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, François Truffaut,
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and
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, Chabrol was a
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for the influential film magazine ''
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'' before beginning his career as a film maker. Chabrol's career began with ''
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'' (1958), inspired by
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's ''
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'' (1943). Thrillers became something of a trademark for Chabrol, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity. This is especially apparent in ''
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'' (1968), '' La Femme infidùle'' (1969), and '' Le Boucher'' (1970) – all featuring
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, who was his wife at the time. Sometimes characterized as a "mainstream" New Wave director, Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half-century career.Great Directors Critical Database: Claude Charbol
at
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In 1978, he cast
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as the lead in ''
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''. On the strength of that effort, the pair went on to others including the successful ''
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'' (1991) and ''
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'' (1995). Film critic
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has stated that "there are few directors whose films are more difficult to explain or evoke on paper, if only because so much of the overall effect turns on Chabrol's sheer hedonistic relish for the medium...Some of his films become almost private jokes, made to amuse himself."
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has called Chabrol "the craftsman par excellence of the New Wave, and his variations upon a theme give us an understanding of the explicitness and precision of the language of the film that we don't get from the more varied experiments in genre of Truffaut or Godard."Wakeman, John. ''World Film Directors, Volume 2''. The H. W. Wilson Company. 1988. 194–199.


Life and career


Early life

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol was born on 24 June 1930 to Yves Chabrol and Madeleine Delarbre in
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and grew up in
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,
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, a village in the region of
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400 km (240 miles) south of Paris. Chabrol said that he always thought of himself as a country person, and never as a Parisian. Both Chabrol's father and grandfather had been
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, and Chabrol was expected to follow in the family business. But as a child, Chabrol was "seized by the demon of cinema" and ran a film club in a barn in Sardent between the ages of 12 and 14. It was at this time that he developed his passion for the thriller genre,
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and other forms of
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.


Early years in Paris

After
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, Chabrol moved to Paris to study
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and literature at the
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, where he received a licence en lettres. Some biographies also state that he briefly studied law and political science at the
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. While living in Paris Chabrol became involved with the postwar
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culture and frequented
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's
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and the Ciné-Club du Quartier Latin, where he first met
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,
Jacques Rivette Jacques Rivette (; 1 March 1928 – 29 January 2016) was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine '' Cahiers du CinĂ©ma''. He made twenty-nine films, including '' L'amour f ...
,
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, François Truffaut and other future ''
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'' journalists and
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filmmakers. After graduating, Chabrol served his mandatory military service in the French Medical Corps, serving in Germany and reaching the rank of sergeant. Chabrol has said that while in the army he worked as a film projectionist.Monaco, James. ''The New Wave''. New York: Oxford University Press. 1976. p. 253. After he was discharged from the army, he joined his friends as a staff writer for ''Cahiers du Cinéma'', who were challenging then-contemporary French films and championing the concept of
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. As a film critic, Chabrol advocated realism both morally and aesthetically, mise-en-scene, and
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cinematography, which he wrote "brings the spectator in closer with the image" and encourages "both a more active mental attitude on the part of the spectator and a more positive contribution on his part to the action in progress." He also wrote for ''Arts'' magazine during this period. Among Chabrol's most famous articles were "Little Themes", a study of genre films, and "The Evolution of Detective Films". In 1955 Chabrol was briefly employed as a publicity man at the French offices of
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, but was told that he was "the worst press officer they'd ever seen" and was replaced by Jean-Luc Godard, who they said was even worse. In 1956 he helped finance Jacques Rivette's short film '' Le coup du berger'', and later helped finance Rohmer's short '' VĂ©ronique et son cancre'' in 1958. Unlike all of his future New Wave contemporaries, Chabrol never made short film nor did he work as an assistant on other directors' work before making his feature film debut. In 1957 Chabrol and Eric Rohmer co-wrote ''Hitchcock'' (Paris: Éditions Universitaires, 1957), a study of the films made by director
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through the film ''
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''. Chabrol had said that Rohmer deserves the majority of the credit for the book, while he mainly worked on the sections pertaining to Hitchcock's early American films, '' Rebecca'', '' Notorious'', and ''
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''. Chabrol had interviewed Hitchcock with François Truffaut in 1954 on the set of ''
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'', where the two famously walked into a water tank after being starstruck by Hitchcock. Years later, when Chabrol and Truffaut had both become successful directors themselves, Hitchcock told Truffaut that he always thought of them when he saw "ice cubes in a glass of whiskey."


1957–67: Early film career

The most prolific of the major New Wave directors, Chabrol averaged almost one film a year from 1958 until his death. His early films (roughly 1958–1963) are usually categorized as part of the New Wave and generally have the experimental qualities associated with the movement; while his later early films are usually categorized as being intentionally commercial and far less experimental. In the mid-sixties it was difficult for Chabrol to obtain financing for films so he made a series of commercial "potboilers" and spy spoofs, which none of the other New Wave filmmakers did. Chabrol had married Agnùs Goute in 1952 and in 1957 his wife inherited a large sum of money from relatives. In December of that year Chabrol used the money to make his feature
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with ''
Le Beau Serge ''Le Beau Serge'' (, literal English translation: "Handsome Serge") is a 1958 French film directed by Claude Chabrol. It has been cited as the first product of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave, film movement. The film is often compared wit ...
''. Chabrol spent three months shooting in his hometown of Sardent using a small crew and little known actors. The film's budget was $85,000.Monaco. p. 254. The film starred
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as François and
GĂ©rard Blain GĂ©rard Blain (23 October 1930 – 17 December 2000) was a French actor and film director. Biography Blain appeared in sixty films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000. In 1971, he won the Golden Leopard ...
as Serge, two childhood friends reunited when the recent medical school graduate François returns to Sardent and discovers that Serge has become an alcoholic after the stillbirth of his physically retarded first child. Despite suffering from
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, François drags Serge through a snowstorm to witness the birth of his second child, thus giving Serge a reason to live while killing himself in the process. ''Le Beau Serge'' is considered the inaugural film of the French New Wave Film movement that would peak between 1959 and 1962. Chabrol was the first of his friends to complete a feature film (although Jacques Rivette had already begun filming his first feature ''
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''), and it immediately received critical praise and was a box office success. It won the Grand Prix at the Locarno Film Festival and the Prix Jean Vigo. Critics noticed similarities to Hitchcock's films, such as the motifs of doubling and re-occurrences and the "Catholic guilt transference" that Chabrol had also written about extensively in his and Rohmer's book the year earlier. Chabrol stated that he made the film as a "farewell to Catholicism", and many critics have called his first film vastly different from any of his subsequent films. Chabrol quickly followed this success up with '' Les Cousins'' in 1958. The film is a companion piece and a reversal to ''Le Beau Serge'' in many ways, such as having the responsible student Brialy now play the decadent and insensitive Paul while the reckless Blain now plays the hard-working law student Charles. In this film, the country cousin Charles arrives in the big city of Paris to live with his corrupt cousin Paul while attending school. This was the first of many Chabrol films to include characters named Paul and Charles, and later films would often include a female named HĂ©lĂšne. More so than his first film, ''Les Cousins'' features many characteristics that would be seen as "Chabrolian", including the Hitchcock influence, a depiction of the French
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, characters with ambiguous motives and a murder. It was also Chabrol's first film co-written with his longtime collaborator
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, of whom Chabrol once said "when I want cruelty, I go off and look for GĂ©gauff. Paul is very good at gingering things up...He can make a character look absolutely ridiculous and hateful in two seconds flat." ''Les Cousins'' was another box office success in France and won the
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at the
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. Chabrol formed his own production company AJYM Productions (acronym based on the initials of his wife's and children's names) at the time of making ''
Le Beau Serge ''Le Beau Serge'' (, literal English translation: "Handsome Serge") is a 1958 French film directed by Claude Chabrol. It has been cited as the first product of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave, film movement. The film is often compared wit ...
''. After the success of ''
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'' and '' Les Cousins'', Chabrol began funding many of the films of his friends. AJYM helped fund Eric Rohmer's feature debut '' The Sign of Leo'', partially funded Rivette's ''Paris nous appartient'', and
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's films ''
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'' and '' Le farceur''. He also donated excess film stock from ''Les Cousins'' to Rivette to complete ''Paris nous appartient''. Chabrol was also a technical advisor on Jean-Luc Godard's feature debut '' Breathless'' and acted in small parts in many of his friends' and his own early films. For his support to the early careers of so many of his friends, Chabrol has been referred to as "the godfather of the French New Wave", although many film histories tend to overlook this contribution and dismiss Chabrol altogether. After two box office hits in a row, Chabrol was given a big budget to make his first
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, ''
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'' (''LĂ©da'') in the spring of 1959. The film stars
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as Laszlo and
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as LĂ©da, two outsiders of a bourgeois family who experience different results when attempting to enter that family. Chabrol adapted the script with Paul GĂ©gauff from a novel by Stanley Ellin, and the film is known for its oedipal sex triangle and murder scenario. The film was shot on location in Aix-en-Provence with cinematographer
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and includes choppy, hand-held camera footage that is atypical of a Chabrol film despite being present in many of the New Wave films made at the same time. The film was both a box office and critical disappointment, and critic Roy Armes criticized "Chabrol's lack of feeling for his characters and love of overacting." In 1960 Chabrol made what is considered by many critics as his best early film, ''
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''. The film stars Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano,
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and Lucile Saint-Simon as four Parisian appliance store employees who all dream of an escape from their mediocre lives, and the different outcomes for each girl. Most critics praised the film, such as Robin Wood and
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. However some left-wing critics disliked Chabrol's depiction of working-class people and accused him of making fun of their lifestyles. The film was another
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for Chabrol. It was followed with two films that were also financially unsuccessful and which Chabrol has admitted to making purely for "commercial reasons". '' Les Godelureaux'' was made in 1960 and hated by Chabrol. '' The Third Lover'' (''L'ƒil du Malin''), released in 1961, received better reviews than Chabrol's previous films, with critics pointing out that the films that Chabrol wrote without Paul GĂ©gauff were much more compassionate and realistic than the ones with GĂ©gauff. It was shot on location in Munich. Although she had appeared in supporting roles in several Chabrol films before, ''The Third Lover'' was the first Chabrol film in which StĂ©phane Audran appeared as the female lead. They later married in 1964 and worked together until the late 1970s. In 1962 Chabrol made ''
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'', a loose adaptation of ''
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'' that was another box office disappointment. Later that year he had a minor hit film with ''Landru'', written by
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and starring Charles Denner,
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,
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and
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. The film depicts the famous French serial killer
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, a story that had previously inspired
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's film ''
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''. From 1964 to 1967 Chabrol made six films and one short that were critically and commercially disastrous, and this period is considered a low point of his career. Four of these films were in the then-popular genre of spy spoof films, including ''
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'' and ''
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''. Chabrol had said that "I like to get to the absolute limit of principles...In drivel like the Tiger series I really wanted to get the full extent of the drivel. They were drivel, so OK, let's get into it up to our necks." During this period a Variety headline read "Vital To Keep Making Pictures, and What Sort Not Relevant; Chabrol No 'Doctrinaire' Type." In 1965 Chabrol also contributed to the New Wave
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'' with the segment "La Muette". Chabrol co-starred with Stéphane Audran as a middle aged couple dealing with their rebellious teenage daughter. In 1964 Chabrol also directed a stage production of ''
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'' for the
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.


1968–78: "Golden Era"

In 1968 Chabrol began working with film producer
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and started to make more critically acclaimed films that would later be considered his "Golden Era". Most of these films revolved around themes of bourgeois characters and a murder is almost always part of the plot. Unlike his earlier films, most of these films centered around middle aged people. Chabrol often worked with the same people during this period including actors Audran and
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, cinematographer
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, editor Jacques Gaillard, sound technician Guy Chichignoud, composer
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, set designer Guy Littaye, as well as producer Génovés and co-writer Paul Gégauff. In 1968 Chabrol made ''
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'', one of his most acclaimed works. The film stars Stéphane Audran as the dominant and bisexual Frédérique, who finds a young protege in the bisexual Why (
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), until they both become the lover of a young architect named Paul (
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). Why ends up killing Frédérique, but it is unclear whether she murdered her cheating lover or the person that her lover was cheating with. The film received critical praise and was a box office hit. Chabrol followed this with a similar film ''
The Unfaithful Wife ''The Unfaithful Wife'' (french: La Femme infidÚle) is a 1969 French crime thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol. The film had a total of 682,295 admissions in France. Plot Insurer Charles Desvallées lives in a beautiful house in the countrys ...
'' (''La Femme infidĂšle''), in which a husband named Charles murders the lover of his cheating wife. It was later remade in 2002 by director Adrian Lyne. Chabrol finished the decade with ''
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'' (''Que la bĂȘte meure'') in 1969. Based on an original story by Cecil Day-Lewis, in the film Charles (
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) plots to kill Paul (
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) after Paul killed Charles' son in a hit and run car accident. However the film's ending is left intentionally ambiguous, and Chabrol has stated that "you'll never see a Charles kill a Paul. Never." The film was especially praised for its landscape cinematography. In 1970 Chabrol made '' The Butcher'' (''Le boucher'') starring Jean Yanne and Stéphane Audran. Yanne plays Popaul, a former war hero known for his violent behavior, much like that depicted in the prehistoric cave drawings that the characters look at in their
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community. The French newspaper ''Le Figaro'' called it "the best French film since the liberation." After another examination of bourgeois life in '' The Breach'' (''La Rupture'') in 1970, Chabrol made ''
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'' (''Juste avant la nuit'') in 1971. The film stars Michel Bouquet as an ad executive named Charles who kills his mistress but cannot handle the guilt, so he confesses his crime to her husband (
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) and his wife (Stéphane Audran), expecting their condemnation. To his surprise they are only compassionate and forgiving to his crime and Charles cannot find relief from the guilt of what he has done. Later in 1971 Chabrol made '' Ten Days' Wonder'' (''La Décade prodigieuse''), based on a novel by
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. The film was shot in English and starred
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,
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and
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. It received poor critical reviews. He followed this with the equally disliked '' Dr. Popaul'', starring
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and
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. Critics compared the film unfavorably with Chabrol's earlier film that centered on a "Landru-like" theme. Critic Jacques Siclier said that "the ''novelty'' of ''Docteur Popaul'' comes from the offhandedness with which the criminal history is treated." Chabrol took a slight change of pace with his 1973 film ''
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'' (''Les Noces rouges'') by making his first film with political themes. The film stars Audran and Michel Piccoli as lovers who plot to murder Audran's husband, who is the corrupt gaullist mayor of their town. To their surprise the President of France orders that no investigation be made of the mayor's death, leading the murdering couple to suspect political interest in their crime. In the spring of 1973 the French government banned the film for one month, allegedly so that it would not influence members of the jury of a controversial criminal trial. Chabrol followed this political theme with ''
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'', in which a group of young anarchists kidnap an American ambassador. It was Chabrol's first film to not center on the bourgeois since ''Le Beau Serge''. Chabrol returned to more familiar ground in 1975 with '' A piece of pleasure'' (''Une partie de plaisir''). In this film screenwriter Paul GĂ©gauff plays a writer with a troubled marriage that ends in tragedy. (In 1983, GĂ©gauff was stabbed to death in real life by his second wife.) GĂ©gauff's wife is played by his real-life first wife DaniĂšle GĂ©gauff (already divorced when this film was made) and his daughter is played by real life daughter Clemence GĂ©gauff. The film received poor critical reviews, with
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calling it "rather interestingly loathsome." Chabrol ended his Golden Period with one of his most admired and his most controversial films ''
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'' in 1978. The film starred a young
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as a real life Parisian girl from a respectable petit-bourgeois family in the 1930s. At night Violette sneaks out to pick up men and eventually contracts syphilis, which she convinces her parents must be hereditary before she kills them. The film was controversial in France but praised in other countries.


1979–2009: Later work

In the 1980's and 1990's Chabrol engaged himself with many different projects for both TV and the silver screen. His films ''
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'' (1985) and ''
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'' (1987) were entered into the 38th Cannes Film Festival and 37th Berlin International Film Festival respectively. ''
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'' (1991) was nominated for the
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and for the
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. It was also entered into the 17th Moscow International Film Festival. ''
La Cérémonie ''La Cérémonie'' is a 1995 crime drama film by Claude Chabrol, adapted from the 1977 novel ''A Judgement in Stone'' by Ruth Rendell. The film echoes the case of Christine and Lea Papin, two French maids who brutally murdered their employer's wif ...
'' (1995) is perhaps his most acclaimed film from this period, as it was nominated for numerous
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and was entered into the
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among other. His 1999 film ''
The Color of Lies ''The Color of Lies'' (French: ''Au cƓur du mensonge)'' is a 1999 psychological mystery film co-written and directed by Claude Chabrol. The film was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot In a small town in Brittany, a 1 ...
'' was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1995 Chabrol was awarded the Prix René Clair from the
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for his body of work. Chabrol continued directing films and TV series well into the 2000's.


Personal life

Chabrol's first marriage to Agnùs Goute (1956–1962) produced a son, Matthieu Chabrol, a composer who scored most of his father's films from the early 1980s. He divorced Agnùs to marry the actress
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, with whom he had a son, actor
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. They remained married from 1964 to 1978. His third wife was Aurore Paquiss, who has been a script supervisor since the 1950s. He had four children. Chabrol was a known gourmet chef and shot ''10 Days Wonder'' in
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only because he wanted to visit its restaurants. Although he acknowledges the influence of Alfred Hitchcock in his work, Chabrol has stated that "others have influenced me more. My three greatest influences were Murnau, the great silent film director...
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and
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." Chabrol died on 12 September 2010 of
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. He is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in north-east
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.


Filmography


As director

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'' (1958; Prix Jean Vigo 1959) *'' Les Cousins'' (1959;
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1959) *''
À double tour ''Web of Passion'' (also released as ''Leda'', original French title: ''À double tour'') is a 1959 French/Italian psychological Thriller (genre), thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the novel ''The Key to Nicholas Street'' by Am ...
'' (1959) – based on ''The Key to Nicholas Street'' by Stanley Ellin *''
Les Bonnes Femmes ''Les Bonnes Femmes'' is a 1960 French comedic drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. Its mix of melodrama, absurd comedy and tragedy is typical for the early, experimental New Wave films. Though unsuccessful upon its initial release in France, ...
'' (1960) *'' Les Godelureaux'' (1961) – based on novel of the same title by Éric Ollivier *''
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'' (1962; Short) *'' L'ƒil du Malin'' (1962) *''
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'' (1963) – loosely based upon
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's character *'' Landru'' (1963) – based upon the true story of
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*''
Les plus belles escroqueries du monde ''The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers'' (French: ''Les plus belles escroqueries du monde'') is a 1964 film composed of five segments, each of which was created with a different set of writers, directors, and actors. Cast *Mie Hama as Bar Hostess ...
'' (1964; Short) *''
Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche ''Le Tigre aime la chair fraĂźche'' ("The Tiger loves fresh meat"), English title ''Code Name: Tiger'', is a 1964 French Eurospy film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Roger Hanin as the spy Louis RapiĂšre, code named "The Tiger". The screen ...
'' (1964) *'' La Muette'' (1965; Short) *''
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'' (1965) – loosely based upon
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's character *''
Our Agent Tiger ''Le tigre se parfume Ă  la dynamite'' (''Our Agent Tiger'') is a 1965 secret agent spy film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring and written by Roger Hanin as the Tiger. It is a sequel to the 1964 film '' Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche''.Blak ...
'' (1965) *'' La Ligne de dĂ©marcation'' (1966) – based upon the memoir by
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*'' Le Scandale'' (1967) *'' La route de Corinthe'' (1967) – based on novel of the same title by *''
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'' (1968) – loosely based on ''
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by
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*'' La Femme infidĂšle'' (1969) *'' Que la bĂȘte meure'' (1969) – based on ''The Beast Must Die'' by Cecil Day-Lewis *'' Le Boucher'' (1970) *'' La Rupture'' (1970) – based on ''The Balloon Man'' by
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*'' Juste avant la nuit'' (1971) – based on '' The Thin Line'' by Edward Atiyah *'' La DĂ©cade prodigieuse'' (1971) – based on '' Ten Days' Wonder'' by
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*'' Dr. Popaul'' (1972) – based on ''Murder at Leisure'' by
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*'' Les Noces rouges'' (1973) *''
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'' also known as ''The Nada Gang'' (1974) – based on ''Nada'' by
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*''
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'' (1975) *'' Les innocents aux mains sales'' (1975) – based on ''The Damned Innocents'' by
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*'' Les Magiciens'' (1976) – based on ''Initiation au meurtre'' by
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*'' Folies bourgeoises'' (1976) *'' Alice ou la Derniùre Fugue'' (1977) *'' Les Liens de sang'' (1978) – based on ''Blood Relatives'' by
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*''
Violette NoziÚre ''Violette NoziÚre'' is a 1978 French crime film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran. The film, based on a true French murder case in 1933, is about an eighteen-year-old girl named Violette and her en ...
'' (1978) – based upon a true French murder case in 1933 *'' Le Cheval d'orgueil'' (1980) – based upon an '' autobiography of the same title'' by
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*'' Les Fantîmes du chapelier'' (1982) – based on novel of the same title by
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*'' Le Sang des autres'' (1984) – based on '' novel of the same title'' by
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Poulet au vinaigre ''Cop au Vin'' (french: Poulet au vinaigre) is a 1985 French crime film directed by Claude Chabrol. It was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. The original French title is a pun: it literally means "vinegar chicken," but "poulet" is als ...
'' (1985) – ''Cop au Vin'', ''Chicken with Vinegar'' *''
Inspecteur Lavardin ''Inspecteur Lavardin'' is a 1986 crime film co-written and directed by Claude Chabrol. It is the sequel to his 1984 film ''Chicken with Vinegar, Cop au vin''. Synopsis The Eponym, titular inspector travels to a small coastal town to investigate t ...
'' (1986) *''
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'' (1987) *'' Le cri du hibou'' (1987) – based on '' The Cry of the Owl'' by
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*'' Une affaire de femmes'' (1988) – based upon the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud *'' Jours tranquilles à Clichy'' (1990) – based upon an '' Quiet Days in Clichy'' by
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*''
Docteur M ''Dr. M''. is a 1990 crime film co-written and directed by Claude Chabrol. The film is loosely based on the plot of Fritz Lang's '' Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'', which was in turn based on '' Mabuse der Spieler'' by Norbert Jacques. Plot In the nea ...
'' (1990) *''
Madame Bovary ''Madame Bovary'' (; ), originally published as ''Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners'' ( ), is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emp ...
'' (1991) – based on ''
Madame Bovary ''Madame Bovary'' (; ), originally published as ''Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners'' ( ), is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emp ...
'' by
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*''
Betty Betty or Bettie is a name, a common diminutive for the names Bethany and Elizabeth. In Latin America, it is also a common diminutive for the given name Beatriz, the Spanish and Portuguese form of the Latin name Beatrix and the English name Beat ...
'' (1992) – based on novel of the same title by
Georges Simenon Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (; 13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. He published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, and was the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret. Early life and education ...
*'' L'ƒil de Vichy'' (1993; Documentary) *'' L'Enfer'' (1994) – adapted from the
screenplay ''ScreenPlay'' is a television drama anthology series broadcast on BBC2 between 9 July 1986 and 27 October 1993. Background After single-play anthology series went off the air, the BBC introduced several showcases for made-for-television, fe ...
'' of the same title'' by Henri-Georges Clouzot *''
La Cérémonie ''La Cérémonie'' is a 1995 crime drama film by Claude Chabrol, adapted from the 1977 novel ''A Judgement in Stone'' by Ruth Rendell. The film echoes the case of Christine and Lea Papin, two French maids who brutally murdered their employer's wif ...
'' (1995) – based on ''
A Judgement in Stone ''A Judgement in Stone'' is a 1977 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, widely considered to be one of her greatest works. Plot summary Eunice is taken on as a housekeeper by a family of four. She has kept her illiteracy a secret and is obse ...
'' by
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*'' Rien ne va plus'' (1997) *''
Au cƓur du mensonge ''The Color of Lies'' (French: ''Au cƓur du mensonge)'' is a 1999 psychological mystery film co-written and directed by Claude Chabrol. The film was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot In a small town in Brittany, a ...
'' (1999) *'' Merci pour le chocolat'' (2000;
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2000) – based on ''The Chocolate Cobweb'' by
Charlotte Armstrong Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (May 2, 1905, in Vulcan, Michigan – July 18, 1969 in Glendale, California) was an American writer. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote 29 novels, as well as short stories, plays, and screenp ...
*'' The Flower of Evil'' (2002) *'' La Demoiselle d'honneur'' (2004) – based on '' The Bridesmaid'' by
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*'' L'ivresse du pouvoir'' (2006) *'' La Fille coupée en deux'' (2007) *'' Bellamy'' (2009)


As actor

*1956: ''La Sonate à Kreutzer'' (by Éric Rohmer) *1958: ''
Le Beau Serge ''Le Beau Serge'' (, literal English translation: "Handsome Serge") is a 1958 French film directed by Claude Chabrol. It has been cited as the first product of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave, film movement. The film is often compared wit ...
'' (by Claude Chabrol) - La Truffe *1959: ''
Web of Passion ''Web of Passion'' (also released as ''Leda'', original French title: ''À double tour'') is a 1959 French/Italian psychological thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the novel ''The Key to Nicholas Street'' by American writer S ...
'' (by Claude Chabrol) - Passerby (uncredited) *1960: ''
Les Bonnes Femmes ''Les Bonnes Femmes'' is a 1960 French comedic drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. Its mix of melodrama, absurd comedy and tragedy is typical for the early, experimental New Wave films. Though unsuccessful upon its initial release in France, ...
'' (by Claude Chabrol) - Un nageur Ă  la piscine (uncredited) *1960: ''
Les Jeux de l'amour ''The Love Game'' (french: Les Jeux de l'amour) is a 1960 French comedy film directed by Philippe de Broca. It was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize. The film's distr ...
'' (by
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) - Le forain *1960: ''
Trapped by Fear ''Trapped by Fear'' is a 1960 French film originally entitled ''Les distractions'' starring Jean Paul Belmondo and directed by Jacques Dupont. It had admissions in France of 955,037.Wise Guys'' (by Claude Chabrol) - Un consommateur (uncredited) *1961: ''Saint Tropez Blues'' (by Marcel Moussy) - Le réalisateur empruntant des propos de Pierre Kast *1961: ''Les menteurs'' (by Edmond T. Gréville) - Le réceptionniste de l'hÎtel (uncredited) *1961: ''
Paris Belongs to Us ''Paris Belongs to Us'' (french: Paris nous appartient, sometimes translated as ''Paris Is Ours'') is a 1961 French mystery film directed by Jacques Rivette. Set in Paris in 1957 and often referencing Shakespeare's play ''Pericles'', the title i ...
'' (by Jacques Rivette) - Un homme à la party (uncredited) *1962: ''Les Ennemis'' (by Édouard Molinaro) - Le moniteur de gymnastique (uncredited) *1962: ''
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'' (by various directors) - Le pharmacien (segment "Avarice, L'") (uncredited) *1962: '' The Third Lover'' (by Claude Chabrol) - Man in peep show (uncredited) *1964: ''Les durs à cuire ou Comment supprimer son prochain sans perdre l'appétit'' (by Jacques Pinoteau) - Le psychiatre *1965: ''
Six in Paris ''Six in Paris'' (french: Paris vu par..., lit=Paris Seen By...) is a 1965 French comedy-drama anthology film. Cast and segments "Saint-Germain-des-Prés" Directed by Jean Douchet *Jean-Pierre Andréani as Raymond * Jean-François Chappey as Je ...
'' (by various directors) - The father (segment "La Muette") *1965: ''
Marie-Chantal contre le docteur Kha ''Marie-Chantal contre le docteur Kha'', also known as ''Blue Panther'', is a 1965 spy film directed by Claude Chabrol. based on the character in a series of novels by Jacques Chazot. Plot The French It girl Marie-Chantal gets accidentally enta ...
'' (by Claude Chabrol) - Customer complaining of his fruit juice *1965: ''
Our Agent Tiger ''Le tigre se parfume Ă  la dynamite'' (''Our Agent Tiger'') is a 1965 secret agent spy film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring and written by Roger Hanin as the Tiger. It is a sequel to the 1964 film '' Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche''.Blak ...
'' (by Claude Chabrol) - Le médecin radiologue (uncredited) *1966: '' Brigitte et Brigitte'' (by Luc Moullet) - Le cousin obsédé de Petite Brigitte *1967: '' La route de Corinthe'' (by Claude Chabrol) - Alcibiades (uncredited) *1968: ''La Petite Vertu'' (by Serge Korber) - Le client du club 22 / Man at the bar in the night club (uncredited) *1968: ''
Les Biches ''Les biches'' () ("The Hinds" or "The Does", or "The Darlings") is a one-act ballet to music by Francis Poulenc, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska and premiered by the Ballets Russes on 6 January 1924 at the Salle Garnier in Monte Carlo. Ni ...
'' (by Claude Chabrol) - Filmmaker (uncredited) *1970: '' La Rupture'' (by Claude Chabrol) - Un passager dans le tramway (uncredited) *1970: ''Sortie de secours'' (by Roger Kahane) *1971: ''Aussi loin que l'amour'' (by FrĂ©dĂ©ric Rossif) - L'homme au poteau (uncredited) *1972: ''Un meurtre est un meurtre'' (by Étienne PĂ©rier) - Le contrĂŽleur des wagons-lits / Railway Guard *1974: ''Le permis de conduire'' (by Jean Girault) - Le rĂ©ceptionniste de l'hĂŽtel (uncredited) *1974: '' La Bonne Nouvelle'' (Short, by AndrĂ© Weinfeld) - Le curĂ© / The Priest *1976: '' Folies bourgeoises'' (by Claude Chabrol) - Le client chez l'Ă©diteur (uncredited) *1977: ''
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'' (by Claude Zidi) - Le metteur en scĂšne *1978: ''
Violette NoziÚre ''Violette NoziÚre'' is a 1978 French crime film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran. The film, based on a true French murder case in 1933, is about an eighteen-year-old girl named Violette and her en ...
'' (by Claude Chabrol) - RĂ©citant du commentaire final (uncredited) *1981: ''Les folies d'Élodie'' (by AndrĂ© GĂ©novĂšs) - Un invitĂ© au vernissage *1984: '' Thieves After Dark'' (by Samuel Fuller) - Louis CrĂ©pin dit :Tartuffe *1984: ''Polar'' (by Jacques Bral) - ThĂ©odore Lyssenko *1986: ''Suivez mon regard'' (by Jean Curtelin) - Le tĂ©lĂ©phage *1986: '' Je hais les acteurs'' (by
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) - Lieberman *1987: ''Sale destin'' (by Sylvain Madigan) - Le commissaire *1987: ''Jeux d'artifices'' (by Virginie Thévenet) - Le pÚre de Jacques *1987: ''
L'été en pente douce ''L'été en pente douce'' (''Summer on a gentle slope'') is a French film, an adaptation of a novel by Pierre Pelot. It was directed by Gérard Krawczyk, and released in 1987. Synopsis Following the death of his mother, Stephane Leheurt, nickn ...
'' (by Gérard Krawczyk) - The priest *1988: ''Alouette, je te plumerai'' (by Pierre Zucca) - Pierre Vergne *1992: ''Sam suffit'' (by Virginie Thévenet) - M. Denis *1997: ''Rien ne va plus'' (by Claude Chabrol) - Le croupier (voice, uncredited) *1999: ''
The Color of Lies ''The Color of Lies'' (French: ''Au cƓur du mensonge)'' is a 1999 psychological mystery film co-written and directed by Claude Chabrol. The film was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot In a small town in Brittany, a 1 ...
'' (by Claude Chabrol) - Emmanuel Solar (voice, uncredited) *2006: ''Avida'' (by Benoßt Delépine) - Le zoophile débonnaire *2008: ''Lucifer et moi'' (by Jean-Jacques Grand-Jouan) - L'homme de la rue *2010: '' Gainsbourg, vie héroïque'' (by
Joann Sfar Joann Sfar (; born 28 August 1971) is a French comics artist, comic book creator, novelist, and film director. Life and career Sfar was born in Nice, the son of Lilou, a pop singer, who died when he was three, and André Sfar, a lawyer well kn ...
) - Le Producteur Musique de Gainsbourg *2012: ''Le Jour des corneilles'' (by Jean-Christophe Dessaint) - Le docteur (voice) *2018: ''
The Other Side of the Wind ''The Other Side of the Wind'' is a 2018 satirical drama film, directed, co-written, co-produced and co-edited by Orson Welles, and posthumously released in 2018 after forty-eight years in development. The film stars John Huston, Bob Random, Pe ...
'' (by
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) - Himself (final film role)


TV work

*'' Histoires insolites'' (1974), 5 episodes *'' Nouvelles de Henry James'' (1974), 2 episodes – based on stories by
Henry James Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the ...
*'' Il était un musicien'' (1978), 3 episodes *' (1978), 1 episode *'' "Jeunesse et Spiritualité" Cyprien Katsaris'' (1979
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*' (1980), 2 episodes – Remake of ''
Fantîmas Fantîmas () is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain (1885–1969) and Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914). One of the most popular characters in the history of French crime fiction, Fantîmas was created in 1911 and appear ...
'' *'' Le systùme du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume'' (1981) – based on '' The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether'' by
Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wide ...
*'' Les affinitĂ©s Ă©lectives'' (1982) – based on ''
Elective Affinities ''Elective Affinities'' (German: ''Die Wahlverwandtschaften''), also translated under the title ''Kindred by Choice'', is the third novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1809. Situated around the city of Weimar, the book relates the ...
'' by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as trea ...
*'' M. le maudit'' (1982, short) *'' La danse de mort'' (1982) – based on '' The Dance of Death'' by
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*'' Les dossiers secrets de l'inspecteur Lavardin'' (1988), 2 episodes *'' Les redoutables'' (2001), 1 episode *''
Chez Maupassant Chez may refer to: * Anthony Chez (1872-1937), American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator * Chez Reavie (born 1981), American golfer * Chez Hotels, an American chain of franchised hotels * CHEZ-FM, a Can ...
'' (2007), 2 episodes – based on stories by
Guy de Maupassant Henri RenĂ© Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destin ...
*'' Au siĂšcle de Maupassant: Contes et nouvelles du XIXĂšme siĂšcle'' (2010), 2 episodes


References


External links

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Biography on newwavefilm.com
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