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.

Released

1936-05-07

Genres

Documentary, Drama

Runtime

29 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Henri Storck

TMDB rating

5.8/10 from 4 votes