Flodder
Dick Maas / NL, 1986 / 109 min.
Dick Maas’ rough and ready comedy about an antisocial family in a villa development attracted some two million Dutch viewers and led to two sequels and a television series. Nelly Frijda’s portrayal of the cigar-chewing mater familias Ma Flodder became an archetype.
Upon its release, the so-called serious film press derided Flodder as a ‘demented laughter machine with tits and ass that produces vacuous chortling of its own accord’ (Het Parool [Dutch broadsheet]). Its director Dick Maas couldn’t care less as his comic book-like satire of an antisocial family installed in a villa development by a well-meaning social worker was heading to well over two million tickets sold and huge video rental profits.
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Director
Dick Maas
Production year
1986
Country
NL
Original title
Flodder
Length
109 min.
Language
none
Subtitles
NONE
Format
DCP, 35mm
Part of
Dick Maas
In 2026, it will be forty years since the popular comedy Flodder shook up the film landscape. That same year, Dick Maas celebrates his 75th birthday — the perfect occasion for a look back at the work of the Dutch “king of genre,” who managed to draw millions of Dutch viewers to the cinema.
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