Léon Poirier
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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.
The Unknown Road
Jeannou
Brazza, or The Epic of the Congo
Sisters-in-Arms
The Call
The Yellow Cruise
Autopolis
La voie sans disque
Verdun, memories of history
Dans la brousse annamite
Rama, the Cannibal Girl
Verdun: Visions of History
Amours exotiques
The Black Cruise
La Brière
L'affaire du courrier de Lyon
Geneviève
Jocelyn
The Jade Casket
Narayana