Houses of Poverty
(1936)
May 7, 1936• 0h 29m
50%
TMDB ScoreOverview
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.
Henri Storck
Director
