Houses of Poverty
1936 • Documentary | Drama
5 (3)
Henri Storck
Director
Status
Released
Release date
May 7, 1936
Duration
29 Min
Language
fr
Popularity
0.1143
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Overview
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.
