Houses of Poverty

5.0 Les maisons de la misère

1936, 29 m

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.

Houses of Poverty

Houses of Poverty

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