The read
It runs a compact 29m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
4 audience votes
Key crew
- Henri StorckDirector
Stills
Themes
minepoverty