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Léon Poirier

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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Directing

1920

[ ] Le penseur (Director)
[ ] Narayana (Director)

1921

[ ] The Jade Casket (Director)

1922

[ ] Jocelyn (Director)

1923

[ ] Geneviève (Director)
[ ] L'affaire du courrier de Lyon (Director)

1924

[ ] La Brière (Director)

1926

[ ] The Black Cruise (Director)

1927

[ ] Amours exotiques (Director)

1928

[ ] Verdun: Visions of History (Director)

1930

[ ] Rama, the Cannibal Girl (Director)

1931

[ ] Dans la brousse annamite (Director)
[ ] Verdun, memories of history (Director)

1933

[ ] La voie sans disque (Director)

1934

[ ] The Yellow Cruise (Director)
[ ] Autopolis (Director)

1936

[ ] The Call (Director)

1937

[ ] Sisters-in-Arms (Director)

1940

[ ] Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo (Director)

1943

[ ] Jeannou (Director)

1949

[ ] The Unknown Road (Director)

Writing

1921

[ ] The Jade Casket (Screenplay)

1922

[ ] Jocelyn (Writer)

1928

[ ] Verdun: Visions of History (Writer)

1930

[ ] Rama, the Cannibal Girl (Writer)

1933

[ ] La voie sans disque (Writer)

1936

[ ] The Call (Screenplay)
[ ] The Call (Dialogue)

1937

[ ] Sisters-in-Arms (Screenplay)

1940

[ ] Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo (Dialogue)
[ ] Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo (Screenplay)

Production

1936

[ ] The Call (Producer)

1937

[ ] Sisters-in-Arms (Producer)

1940

[ ] Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo (Producer)

Editing

1934

[ ] The Yellow Cruise (Editor)