Léon Poirier

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

Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo

Screenplay, Dialogue, Producer, Director

The Call

Producer, Screenplay, Dialogue, Director

Verdun: Visions of History

Writer, Director

Sisters-in-Arms

Screenplay, Producer, Director

La voie sans disque

Director, Writer

La Brière

Director

Geneviève

Director

Le penseur

Director

Narayana

Director

The Yellow Cruise

Director, Editor

Rama, the Cannibal Girl

Writer, Director

Jeannou

Director

Dans la brousse annamite

Director

The Jade Casket

Director, Screenplay

Verdun, memories of history

Director

Jocelyn

Director, Writer

L'affaire du courrier de Lyon

Director

Amours exotiques

Director

The Unknown Road

Director

The Black Cruise

Director

Autopolis

Director