Léon Poirier

The voyages of Pierre Savorgnan de Brassa through Africa. This great explorer, the founder of Brazzaville (Congo), was born in Italy but chose Fran...

01 de fev. de 1940

Jeannou lives in a castle in Périgord with his father, the last man of aristocratic lineage landowners, very attached to traditions. She meets Pete...

10 de nov. de 1943

The Yellow Cruise is a French documentary film initially directed by André Sauvage and taken over by Léon Poirier following the intervention of And...

18 de mar. de 1934

A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.

08 de nov. de 1928

During the war from '14-'18, two women travel by foot in the North of France and Belgium to aid an organization to provide information to the English

02 de dez. de 1937

The story of Charles de Foucauld, born September 15, 1858 in Strasbourg (France) and died December 1, 1916 in Tamanrasset in Algeria during the Fre...

01 de mai. de 1936

Loosely based on Balzac's novel "La peau de chagrin", the story revolves around a man who steals a small, magical figurine named Narayana.

22 de out. de 1920

18 de nov. de 1921

Toward the close of World War I, European railroads in Djibouti are under siege by bands of indigenous warriors, while one of the white employees f...

31 de mai. de 1933

Geneviève is an orphan child and living with her little sister Josette. Because of her economic situation, she cancels marriage with an honest and ...

01 de jan. de 1923

A stoker, dissatisfied with his job, escapes from his ship to an island where he lives with a native girl. Eventually he is picked up by a passing ...

28 de nov. de 1930

Adaptation of a romantic Lamartine poem. A youth leaves a monastery where he has stayed, after the anti-religious terror of the Revolution. He befr...

03 de nov. de 1922

A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Verdun.

06 de nov. de 1931

In the lands of Brière a bitter dispute broke out over the draining of marshes for brick making. An old man, Aoustin, leads the resistance and refu...

02 de jan. de 1924

The Moroccan adventure of Charles de Foucauld, explorer in Morocco, in 1883-1884. The ex-officer's contact with the wisdom of the Koran, the mores ...

02 de dez. de 1949

Directed by Léon Poirier.

02 de jan. de 1920

This non-fiction feature produced by the Citroen automobile company features a car which makes a trip across the African continent.

02 de mar. de 1926

22 de nov. de 1927