Houses of Poverty

• Movies
• 1936-05-07
• FR
• Released
• 0h 29m
• BE
• Documentary - Drama

• 5.0
• 3

Production

Films Henri Storck

Storyline

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.