Biography
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.
Filmography
all 24
Movies 24
Director 18
Producer 6
Director
The Unknown Road (1949)
Movie
Director
Jeannou (1943)
Movie
Dialogue / Screenplay / Producer / Director
Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo (1940)
Movie
Screenplay / Producer / Director
Sisters-in-Arms (1937)
Movie
Producer / Screenplay / Dialogue / Director
The Call (1936)
Movie
Director / Editor
The Yellow Cruise (1934)
Movie
Director
Autopolis (1934)
Movie
Director / Writer
La voie sans disque (1933)
Movie
Producer
Love... Love... (1932)
Movie
Producer
The Mad Night (1932)
Movie
Writer / Director
Rama, the Cannibal Girl (1930)
Movie
Writer / Director
Verdun: Visions of History (1928)
Movie
Director
Amours exotiques (1927)
Movie
Director
La croisière noire (1926)
Movie
Director
La Brière (1924)
Movie
Director
Geneviève (1923)
Movie
Director / Writer
Jocelyn (1922)
Movie
Director / Screenplay
The Jade Casket (1921)
Movie
Director
Narayana (1920)
Movie
Director
Le penseur (1920)
Movie
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Information
Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1884-08-24
Deathday1968-06-27 (83 years old)
Birth Place16th arrondissement of Paris, France
RelativesBerthe Morisot
CitizenshipsFrance
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