Houses of Poverty(1936)

Name: Houses of Poverty
Director: Henri Storck
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Released: 1936-01-01
Duration: 29 min

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.