Léon Poirier
Directing
Born August 25, 1884 · 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.
Directed (21)
The Unknown Road
1949
Jeannou
1943
Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo
1940
Sisters-in-Arms
1937
The Call
1936
The Yellow Cruise
1934
Autopolis
1934
La voie sans disque
1933
Verdun, memories of history
1931
Dans la brousse annamite
1931
Rama, the Cannibal Girl
1930
Verdun: Visions of History
1928
Amours exotiques
1927
The Black Cruise
1926
La Brière
1924
L'affaire du courrier de Lyon
1923
Geneviève
1923
Jocelyn
1922
The Jade Casket
1921
Narayana
1920
Le penseur
1920