Houses of Poverty
5.8/ 10 4 votes 1936-05-07 0h 29m 1 popularity
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
