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Released
1936 · FILM

Les maisons de la misère

Directed by
Runtime
29 min
Language
FR
DocumentaryDrama

Synopsis

Henri Storck's militant short film on Depression-era Belgium is set in the Walloon slums on the outskirts of a prosperous city. Staged vignettes reveal substandard housing, overcrowding, and the numbed existence of its residents through claustrophobic, frame-filling imagery. A coda on slum clearance and "garden city" rehousing provides a note of guarded hope.

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Principal cast & crew: 2

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Scored by Maurice Jaubert

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