
Léon Poirier
Directing · Born 1884-08-25 · Paris, France
Léon Poirier (25 August 1884 – 27 June 1968) was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for his silent films from 1913 onwards. He directed some 25 films between 1913 and 1949. His most famous film today is Verdun: Visions of History, a drama-documentary depicting the World War I Battle of Verdun. His later films adopted a form of poetic realism influenced by pictorialist photography.
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As director

The Unknown Road 1949
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Jeannou 1943
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Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo 1940
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Sisters-in-Arms 1937
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The Call 1936
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The Yellow Cruise 1934
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Autopolis 1934
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La voie sans disque 1933
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Verdun, memories of history 1931
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Dans la brousse annamite 1931
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Rama, the Cannibal Girl 1930
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Verdun: Visions of History 1928
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Amours exotiques 1927
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The Black Cruise 1926
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La Brière 1924
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L'affaire du courrier de Lyon 1923
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Geneviève 1923
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Jocelyn 1922
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The Jade Casket 1921
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Narayana 1920
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Le penseur 1920
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