Flodder is a 1986 comedy by director Dick Maas, in which an 'asocial' family named 'Flodder' are moved to a rich neighbourhood, as part of a social experiment. Dick Maas (born 15 April 1951, Heemstede) is Dutch Film director, Scriptwriter, Film producer and movie music
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. Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname
Follow ups
- Flodder in Amerika
- Flodder 3
- Flodder (TV series)