
Director
Léon Poirier
Born 1884 · Paris, France
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
La voie sans disque
Director · 1933

La Brière
Director · 1924

Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo
Director · 1940

The Black Cruise
Director · 1926
Le penseur
Director · 1920

Jeannou
Director · 1943

The Jade Casket
Director · 1921

Verdun: Visions of History
Director · 1928

The Call
Director · 1936

Rama, the Cannibal Girl
Director · 1930

Jocelyn
Director · 1922
L'affaire du courrier de Lyon
Director · 1923

The Unknown Road
Director · 1949

The Yellow Cruise
Director · 1934
Geneviève
Director · 1923

Verdun, memories of history
Director · 1931

Narayana
Director · 1920

Sisters-in-Arms
Director · 1937