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Houses of Poverty (1936)
Directed by Henri Storck
Documentary, Drama · 29m
Henri Storck’s militant short on Depression-era Belgium, set in Walloon slums on the outskirts of a prosperous city. Staged vignettes expose substandard housing, overcrowding, and numbed survival through claustrophobic, frame-filling images; a coda on slum clearance and “garden city” rehousing offers guarded hope.
Crew
- Director
- Henri Storck
- Editor
- Henri Storck
Details
- Original title
- Les maisons de la misère
- Release date
- 1936-05-07
- Runtime
- 29m
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- Belgium
- Production
- Films Henri Storck