- Misère au Borinage
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Misère au Borinage Directed by Henri Storck
Joris IvensWritten by Henri Storck
Joris IvensEditing by Helen van Dongen Release date(s) 1933 Running time 36 minutes Country Belgium Language French, Dutch Misère au Borinage ("Poverty in Borinage") is a 1933 Belgian documentary film directed by Henri Storck and Joris Ivens.
The film opens with these words: Crisis in the Capitalist World. Factories are closed down, abandoned. Millions of proletarians are hungry!
The Borinage is one of the most famous industrial region of Wallonia (and of the classic industrial revolution in general) because of its history of hard and long social strikes. For instance, in 1932 with a long strike (two months) in this region but also in Liège and Charleroi is quoted as one of the most important work of the Political cinema cinema [1]."It is one of the most important references in the documentary genre." [2]
"The stridency of the work is exemplified by a short film Ivens made with Belgian cinema club leader Henri Storck (1933) portraiting the cruelty plunged into poverty as result of a classic capitalist crisis of over production." [3]
For Philipp Mosley this film is linked to the History of Wallonia. He speaks about other events after the long strike of 1932: "Matters worsened in 1956 with the Marcinelle disaster, whose victims included many immigrants, and then with release of initial closure plans for Walloon mines. In scene reminiscent of Storck's Borinage film of 1933, social unrest in the area near Mons escalated into general strike of 1960 and 1961." [4]. Robert Stallaerts wrote about Storck one of the directors of Misère au Borinage: "Although a Fleming, he can be called the father of the Walloon cinema." [5]
See also
- Borinage
- Belgian general strikes
- Walloon Jacquerie of 1886
- Belgian general strike of 1893
- General strike against Leopold III of Belgium
- 1960-1961 Winter General Strike
- Les Enfants du Borinage - Lettre à Henri Storck
References
- ^ Political cinema
- ^ Misery in Borinage
- ^ Patricia Aufderheide, Documentary film: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, 2007, p.79. ISBN 978-0-19-518270-5
- ^ Philip Mosley Split Screen: Belgian Cinema and cultural Identity, Suny Press, New-York, 2001,p. 81. ISBN 0-7914-4747-2
- ^ Historical dictionary of Belgium Scarecrow press, 1999, p. 191. ISBN 0810836033
External links
- "Critique: Misère au Borinage (Misery In Borinage) by Ivens & Storck". La Revue Toudi. http://www.larevuetoudi.org/en/story/critique-misère-au-borinage-misery-borinage-ivens-storck. Retrieved 2009-10-13. Review of the film and video (version of 1933) without music or comment; French and Dutch titles.
- Misère au Borinage at the Internet Movie Database
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- 1930s documentary films
- 1933 films
- Belgian documentary films
- Films directed by Henri Storck
- Films directed by Joris Ivens
- Political films
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