Houses of Poverty (1936)
Les maisons de la misère
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.
- Date of release
- 1936-05-07
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 29m
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama
- Director
- Henri Storck
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