Houses of Poverty

  • Rated 5.8 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 1936
  • 29m
  • Documentary
  • Drama

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.

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Henri Storck

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