Léon Poirier
Directing
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.
Known for
Directing21
movieThe Unknown Road
1949
Director
movieJeannou
1943
Director
movieSisters-in-Arms
1937
Director
movieThe Call
1936
Director
movieThe Yellow Cruise
1934
Director
movieAutopolis
1934
Director
movieRama, the Cannibal Girl
1930
Director
movieThe Black Cruise
1926
Director
movieLa Brière
1924
Director
Geneviève
1923
Director
movieJocelyn
1922
Director
movieThe Jade Casket
1921
Director
movieNarayana
1920
Director
Le penseur
1920
Director
Writing8
movieBrazza, or The Epic of the Congo
1940
Dialogue, Screenplay
movieSisters-in-Arms
1937
Screenplay
movieThe Call
1936
Screenplay, Dialogue
movieJocelyn
1922
Writer
movieThe Jade Casket
1921
Screenplay
Production3
movieSisters-in-Arms
1937
Producer
movieThe Call
1936
Producer