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Houses of Poverty
1936 FR 29 min
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.
Release date
07/05/1936
Votes
4
Popularity
0.4
Original Soundtrack
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