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