A low-class antisocial family ends up in a rich upper-class neighborhood and causes all sorts of trouble.
Acting
Nelly Frijda's Ma Flodder is iconic Dutch cinema
Direction
Dick Maas delivers controlled anarchy with perfect timing
Production
The contrast between Flodder chaos and sterile suburbia
Director
Dick Maas
Nelly Frijda
Ma Flodder
Huub Stapel
Johnnie
René van 't Hof
Kees Flodder (Son)
Tatjana Simić
Kees Flodder (Daughter)
Horace Cohen
Henkie
Lou Landré
Jacques "Sjakie" van Kooten
Apollonia van Ravenstein
Yolanda Kruisman
Herbert Flack
Wim Kruisman
Bert André
Buurman Neuteboom
Gerrie van der Klei
Buurvrouw Wijnberg
Liz Snoijink
Laura
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Flodder became a Dutch cultural phenomenon spawning three sequels and a TV series, essentially defining 1980s Netherlands' working-class identity on screen.
Dick Maas reused the bulldozer-in-the-pool stunt technique for his later film Amsterdamned, proving once a chaos director, always a chaos director.
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