Film · 1936 · Documentary
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.
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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.
Houses of Poverty (1936) is available to stream on Flicksy via 6 verified sources, aggregated from publicly available embed providers. The 29m documentary directed by Henri Storck is rated 5.8/10 by 4 viewers.
Houses of Poverty was released on May 7, 1936.
Houses of Poverty was directed by Henri Storck.
Houses of Poverty has a runtime of 29 minutes.
Houses of Poverty is categorized as Documentary, Drama.
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