Film · Drama, Documentary

Houses of Poverty (1936)

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.

Director

Henri Storck

Country

France

Language

French

Release date

May 7, 1936

Original title

Les maisons de la misère