Houses of Poverty (1936)

Name: Houses of Poverty
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Released: 1936-05-07

Release Date:	1936, May 7
Directors:	Henri Storck
Countries:	Belgium
Production:	Films Henri Storck, Films Henri Storck

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

poverty mine

BigList Rating:	0
Critics Rating:	50

Houses of Poverty (1936)

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