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| General Description : | Henri Storck (1907, Ostend – 17 September 1999) was a Belgian author, filmmaker and documentarist. In 1933, he directed, with Joris Ivens, Misère au Borinage, a film about the miners in the Borinage area. In 1938, with Andre Thirifays and Pierre Vermeylen, he founded the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique (Royal Belgian Film Archive). He was an actor in two key films of the history of the cinema: Jean Vigo's Zéro de conduite (1933) in the role of the priest, and Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quay Commercial, 1080 Brussels (1976) in the role of a customer of the prostitute. Misère au 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 regions of Wallonia (and of the classic industrial revolution in general) because of its history of hard and long social strikes, for instance, a two-month long 1932 strike in this region, as well as Liège and Charleroi. It is considered one of the most important work of the Political cinema. "It is one of the most important references in the documentary genre." "The stridency of the work is exemplified by a short film Ivens made with Belgian cinema club leader Henri Storck (1933) portraying the cruel plunge into poverty resulting from a classic capitalist crisis of over production." |
| Face value | 0,52 Euro |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BE 3726 |
| Catalog code | Stamp Number BE 2254a Yvert et Tellier BE 3661 Belgium BE 3678 WADP Numbering System - WNS BE079.07 Unificato BE 3670 |
| Stamp colour | black and white |
| Stamp use | Mini-sheet stamp |
| Print run | 571.000 |
| Issue date | 01/09/2007 |
| Designer | Luc Derycke |
| Print technique | photogravure |
| Perforation | 11 1/2 |
| Height | 27.66 mm |
| Width | 40.20 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
