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.

Directed

1. The Yellow Cruise (1934) — Director
2. Narayana (1920) — Director
3. Sisters-in-Arms (1937) — Director
4. Verdun: Visions of History (1928) — Director
5. The Call (1936) — Director
6. Rama, the Cannibal Girl (1930) — Director
7. Jocelyn (1922) — Director
8. La voie sans disque (1933) — Director
9. La Brière (1924) — Director
10. Geneviève (1923) — Director
11. Le penseur (1920) — Director
12. Jeannou (1943) — Director
13. Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo (1940) — Director
14. The Jade Casket (1921) — Director
15. Verdun, memories of history (1931) — Director
16. L'affaire du courrier de Lyon (1923) — Director
17. The Unknown Road (1949) — Director
18. The Black Cruise (1926) — Director
19. Dans la brousse annamite (1931) — Director
20. Amours exotiques (1927) — Director
21. Autopolis (1934) — Director