Person
Léon Poirier
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Aug 25, 1884
- Died
- Jun 27, 1968
- From
- 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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The Call
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Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo
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Verdun: Visions of History
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Sisters-in-Arms
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La voie sans disque
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La Brière
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Geneviève
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Le penseur
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Narayana
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The Yellow Cruise
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Rama, the Cannibal Girl
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Jeannou
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Dans la brousse annamite
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The Jade Casket
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Verdun, memories of history
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Jocelyn
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L'affaire du courrier de Lyon
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Amours exotiques
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