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| Directed by | Dick Maas |
| Screenplay by | Dick Maas |
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| Cinematography | Marc Felperlaan |
| Edited by | Hans van Dongen |
| Music by | Dick Maas |
Production company | First Floor Features |
| Distributed by | Concorde Film |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Language | Dutch |
| Box office | 2.3 million admissions (Netherlands)[1] |
Flodder is a 1986 Dutch comedy film written and directed by Dick Maas, and produced by First Floor Features. It is the first film in the Flodder franchise and is followed by two more films and a spin-off series. The film follows an anti-social, dysfunctional family who move to an affluent, upper-class neighbourhood as part of a social experiment which results in mayhem as the Flodder family refuses to adapt.
Flodder's absurd humour and politically incorrect satire ridiculing the Dutch welfare state resulted in mixed reviews, but was the most popular Dutch film of the year and one of the top 10 of all time with 2.3 million admissions.[1] It still attracts a cult following, and in 2007 it was admitted to the Canon van de Nederlandse Film. Flodder is also a Dutch word meaning blank cartridge, a referral to the Flodders looking dangerous and being noisy, despite being rather harmless.