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