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Léon Poirier
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 film…
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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.
Filmography
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1949
The Unknown Road
Movie Director
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1943
Jeannou
Movie Director
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1940
Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo
Movie Screenplay
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1937
Sisters-in-Arms
Movie Screenplay
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1936
The Call
Movie Producer
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1934
The Yellow Cruise
Movie Director
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1934
Autopolis
Movie Director
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1933
La voie sans disque
Movie Director
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1931
Verdun, memories of history
Movie Director
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1931
Dans la brousse annamite
Movie Director
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1930
Rama, the Cannibal Girl
Movie Writer
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1928
Verdun: Visions of History
Movie Writer
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1927
Amours exotiques
Movie Director
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1926
The Black Cruise
Movie Director
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1924
La Brière
Movie Director
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1923
L'affaire du courrier de Lyon
Movie Director
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1923
Geneviève
Movie Director
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1922
Jocelyn
Movie Director
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1921
The Jade Casket
Movie Director
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1920
Narayana
Movie Director
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1920
Le penseur
Movie Director
