Directing
Léon Poirier
Born August 25, 1884 Paris, France
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.
Directed Films
8.0
The Unknown Road
1949
9.0
Jeannou
1943·Drama
10.0
Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo
1940·Adventure
5.2
Sisters-in-Arms
1937·Drama
8.0
The Call
1936·Drama
6.4
The Yellow Cruise
1934·Documentary
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Autopolis
1934·Documentary
7.0
Verdun, memories of history
1931
8.0
Rama, the Cannibal Girl
1930
7.8
Verdun: Visions of History
1928·War
10.0
The Black Cruise
1926·Documentary
10.0
La Brière
1924·Drama
8.0
Jocelyn
1922
9.0
The Jade Casket
1921
5.8
Narayana
1920·Drama