Léon Poirier
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1884-08-25
Day of Death
1968-06-27 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Léon Poirier
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.
Crew
(1949)
The Unknown Road
Director
(1943)
Jeannou
Director
(1940)
Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo
Dialogue, Screenplay, Producer, Director
(1937)
Sisters-in-Arms
Screenplay, Producer, Director
(1936)
The Call
Screenplay, Dialogue, Producer, Director
(1934)
The Yellow Cruise
Director, Editor
(1934)
Autopolis
Director
(1933)
La voie sans disque
Director, Writer
(1931)
Dans la brousse annamite
Director
(1931)
Verdun, memories of history
Director
(1930)
Rama, the Cannibal Girl
Writer, Director
(1928)
Verdun: Visions of History
Writer, Director
(1927)
Amours exotiques
Director
(1926)
La croisière noire
Director
(1924)
La Brière
Director
(1923)
Geneviève
Director
(1923)
L'affaire du courrier de Lyon
Director
(1922)
Jocelyn
Director, Writer
(1921)
The Jade Casket
Director, Screenplay
(1920)
Le penseur
Director
(1920)
Narayana
Director