Léon Poirier
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 25, 1884
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
- Died
- June 27, 1968
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.
Movies directed by Léon Poirier
- The Yellow Cruise 1934 · ★ 6.3
- Narayana 1920 · ★ 5.8
- Sisters-in-Arms 1937 · ★ 5.2
- Verdun: Visions of History 1928 · ★ 7.8
- The Call 1936 · ★ 8.0
- Rama, the Cannibal Girl 1930 · ★ 8.0
- Jocelyn 1922 · ★ 8.0
- La voie sans disque 1933 · ★ 10.0
- La Brière 1924 · ★ 10.0
- Geneviève 1923 · ★ 7.0
- Le penseur 1920 · ★ 9.0
- Jeannou 1943 · ★ 9.0
- Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo 1940 · ★ 10.0
- The Jade Casket 1921 · ★ 9.0
- Verdun, memories of history 1931 · ★ 7.0
- L'affaire du courrier de Lyon 1923 · ★ 8.0
- The Unknown Road 1949 · ★ 8.0
- The Black Cruise 1926 · ★ 10.0
- Dans la brousse annamite 1931
- Amours exotiques 1927
- Autopolis 1934
- L'Ombre Déchirée 1921