Misère au Borinage

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 ."It is one of the most important references in the documentary genre." "The stridency of the work is exemplified by a short film...