Houses of Poverty (1936)

Release Date: 1936-05-07
Runtime: 0h 29min
Production Company: Films Henri Storck
Production Country: Belgium
Director: Henri Storck

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.