Léon Poirier

Birthday: 1884-08-25
Deathday: 1968-06-27
Birthplace: Paris, France
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

Year Title
1949-12-02 The Unknown Road
1943-11-10 Jeannou
1940-02-01 Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo
1937-12-02 Sisters-in-Arms
1936-05-01 The Call
1934-03-18 The Yellow Cruise
1934-01-01 Autopolis
1933-05-31 La voie sans disque
1931-11-06 Verdun, memories of history
1931-01-01 Dans la brousse annamite
1930-11-28 Rama, the Cannibal Girl
1928-11-08 Verdun: Visions of History
1927-11-22 Amours exotiques
1926-03-02 La croisière noire
1924-01-02 La Brière
1923-03-09 L'affaire du courrier de Lyon
1923-01-01 Geneviève
1922-11-03 Jocelyn
1921-11-18 The Jade Casket
1920-10-22 Narayana
1920-01-02 Le penseur