- Flodder
Infobox Film
name = Flodder
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director =Dick Maas
producer = Dick Maas
Laurens Geels
writer = Dick Maas
narrator =
starring = Nelly Frijda
Rene Van't KofTatjana Simic
Huub Stapel
music = Dick Maas
cinematography = Marc Felperlaan
editing =
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released = Start date|1986|12|17
runtime = 111 minutes
country =Netherlands
language = Dutch
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followed_by = "Flodder in Amerika "
"Flodder 3"
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amg_id = 1:120672
imdb_id = 0091060"Flodder" is a 1986 comedy film by director
Dick Maas , in which an 'asocial' family named 'Flodder' are moved to a rich neighbourhood, as part of a social experiment.Despite the experiment failing in that the Flodders keep up their old lifestyle, after initial mistrust by the locals, some of them gradually start to like the newcomers, who bring some life into the boring neighbourhood, but in the resulting party, the house gets blown up. Upon which Ma Flodder comments that parties always leave such a mess.
"Flodder" is also a Dutch word meaning "blank cartridge", a referral to the Flodders looking dangerous and being noisy, despite being rather harmless.
Reception
In 1987, Dick Maas, won a Golden Calf award at the
Netherlands Film Festival for "Best Director of a Feature Film." for "Flodder". [cite web |url=http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0091060/awards |title=Flodder (1986) - Awards |publisher=Internet Movie Database |accessdate=2008-06-18] [cite web |url=http://www.filmfestival.nl/en/gold/goud002.html |title=Golden Calf winners earlier editions |publisher=Netherlands Film Festival |accessdate=2008-06-18]Follow ups
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Flodder in Amerika "
*"Flodder 3 "
*"Flodder" (TV series)References
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