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Léon Poirier

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French film producer, screenwriter and director (1884-1968)

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Léon Poirier 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.

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Filmography 21

The Yellow Cruise1934
Sisters-in-Arms1937
Verdun: Visions of History1928
Narayana1920
The Call1936
Jocelyn1922
Rama, the Cannibal Girl1930
Jeannou1943
Geneviève1923
The Black Cruise1926
The Unknown Road1949
La Brière1924
Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo1940
La voie sans disque1933
Verdun, memories of history1931
The Jade Casket1921
Le penseur1920
L'affaire du courrier de Lyon1923
Autopolis1934
Amours exotiques1927
Dans la brousse annamite1931

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Bernard NatanAlso in The Yellow Cruise (1934)Josette DayAlso in Sisters-in-Arms (1937)Edmond FlegAlso in Le penseur (1920)Suzanne BianchettiAlso in Verdun: Visions of History (1928)Mireille PerreyAlso in Jeannou (1943)Edmond Van DaëleAlso in Narayana (1920)

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Léon Poirier 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.

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France
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1884 to 1968 · aged 83
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