Houses of Poverty

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 7, 1936

Original language

French

Spoken languages

French

Countries

Belgium

Production

Films Henri Storck

Director

Henri Storck

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0292087