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Flodder
''Flodder'' is a 1986 Dutch comedy film written and directed by Dick Maas, and distributed 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'' absurd humour and politically incorrect satire ridiculing the Dutch welfare state resulted in mixed reviews. However it was the most popular Dutch film of the year and one of the top 10 of all-time with 2.3 million admissions and still attracts a cult following and in 2007 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. Plot When it emerges that the Flodder family's current state-owned house is on a toxic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flodder 3
'' Flodder 3 '' (Alternative titles: ''Flodder Forever'' or ''Flodder: The Final Story'') is a 1995 Dutch comedy film directed by Dick Maas. It is the third and last movie about the anti-social family, called 'Flodder'. The movie is a continuation of the similar TV series, not the previous two movies. Different from the first two movies, son Kees is now played by actor Stefan de Walle and Johnnie Flodder is now played by Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh, the same actor as in the TV series. It was the second most popular Dutch film of the year. Filming The film was recorded directly after the third season of the TV serial from September to November 1994 and is a combination of three considered scenarios which were originally intended for episodes of the TV series. 1997 marked the final ending of Flodder, when Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh died unexpectedly due to a heart attack at a private party at the Flodder Studio' s in Almere, where the round-off of seasons four and five was be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flodder In Amerika
''Flodders in America'' ( nl, Flodder in Amerika!), released in Quebec as ''Les Lavigueur Redéménagent'', is a 1992 Dutch comedy film directed by Dick Maas. The film is the sequel of the successful film ''Flodder'' from 1986. It was filmed on location in New York and stars Dutch actors Huub Stapel, Nelly Frijda, Tatjana Simic, Rene van 't Hof, Lou Landré, Gerard Joling, Dick Rienstra, and American actor Jon Polito as nightclub owner Larry Rosenbaum. Story The city council comes into contact with a cultural exchange project in the USA, which proposes to have an average family of either country live for a year in the other one. The sneaky councilman proposes the Flodders, who have been causing many problems over the last year, for the exchange, in the hope of getting rid of them for good. Sjakie van Kooten, the social worker who is guiding the Flodders' social integration, is sent with them. After a flight in which the family causes many problems, Sjakie and the Flodders land i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatjana Šimić
Tatjana Šimić (born 9 June 1963), also known by the mononym Tatjana, is a Croatian-Dutch model, actress and singer. Biography Šimić was born in Zagreb, PR Croatia, Yugoslavia on 9 June 1963, but moved with her mother and sister to Rotterdam in 1979 at the age of 16. In the 1980s, having won a national modeling contest, she commenced work as an actress and model. In the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, she remains known for her portrayal of the character Kees Flodder, a daughter in the dysfunctional and anti-social Flodder family, which featured in several Dutch comedy films and a television series in the 1980s and 1990s. The original movie was popular in the Netherlands, reaching two and a half million viewers. Šimić, a sex symbol, has appeared on the cover of ''Playboy'' seventeen times between 1988 and 1996; thirteen times on the Dutch edition and four times on the German edition. In December 2012, she made her last appearance in the Dutch Playboy's Christmas special. Š... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huub Stapel
Hubertus Wijnandus Jozef Marie (Huub) Stapel (born 2 December 1954, in Tegelen) is a Dutch actor. He is especially known from the films ''De Lift'' (1983), ''Flodder'' (1986) and ''Amsterdamned'' (1988) by Dick Maas. He also appeared in the Golden Earring video ''When the Lady Smiles''. Filmografie Dutch productions *''Ferry'' (2021) *''Redbad'' (2018) *'' Zwarte Tulp'' (2015) - Luuk Vonk *'' Goedenavond dames en heren'' (2015) - Benno *'' Hemel op aarde'' (2013) - Father Sef Janzen *'' A Perfect Man'' (2013) - Pieter *'' Moeder, ik wil bij de Revue'' (2012) - Jacob Somers *'' Bellicher:Cel'' (2012) - Steiner *'' De Goede Dood'' (2012) - Michael *'' Hard tegen Hard'' (2011) - Ben Berendsen *''U & Eye'' (2011) - Carpenter *'' Titten'' (2011) *''Sint'' (2010) - Saint Nicholas *'' Iep!'' (2010) - Warre *'' Terug naar de kust'' (2009)- Victor *''Het Wapen van Geldrop'' (2008) - Piet Veerman *''Alles is Liefde'' (2007) - himself *''Flikken Maastricht'' television series - Geer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert André
Hubertus Antonius Gerardus Maria "Bert" André (August 6, 1941 – May 21, 2008) was a Dutch actor who started his career in theater and later became known to the greater audiences through his roles in various movies and TV series. Biography He started his career as a teacher in Maastricht but moved to Antwerp in 1964, where he studied theater improvisation in what later was known as the Studio Herman Teirlinck. Among his course mates were Jan Decleir and Mike Verdrengh. One of the first big screen roles was his portrayal of the neighbour Neuteboom in the first and third film about the Flodder (1986) family which resulted in consequent movies and TV series. Some of his other more recognizable work include ''Ramona'' and '' Halleluja!'', ''Mira'', ''Turks Fruit'', ''Soldier of Orange'', ''De Leeuw van Vlaanderen'' and ''Boerenpsalm''. In the course of his career he performed in more than 150 films between 1967 and 2008. André has played roles in classical theater pieces written ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Maas
Dirk Herman Willem Maas (Dick) (born 15 April 1951) is a Dutch film director, screenwriter, film producer and film composer. Maas achieved fame after the success of his music videos for the Dutch band Golden Earring, including "Twilight Zone (Golden Earring song), Twilight Zone" and the controversial "When the Lady Smiles," and his films ''De Lift'', ''Amsterdamned'' and ''Flodder'' in the 1980s. Maas also directed the controversial Saint Nicolas slasher ''Sint'' (Saint Nick) and one episode of the TV series ''Young Indiana Jones''. The film ''Karakter'' won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1996. Maas served as executive producer. The film was produced by his production company First Floor Features, founded in 1984. He left the company, which he started with Laurens Geels, in 2001. His 2016 film ''Prooi'' became an unexpected box office hit in China cinemas in 2019. It is also the first Dutch film to secure a wide theatrical release in China. The film was retitl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lavigueur Family
The Lavigueur family is a Quebec family who made headlines in Canada in the 1980s after winning a lottery jackpot of $7,650,267 in 1986, then the largest prize ever given by Loto-Québec. The trials and troubles of the Lavigueur family have since become entrenched in Quebec popular culture for various reasons: the fact that a poor family became multimillionaires overnight; the intervention of a stranger who found the lottery ticket lost by the family's father; the judicial saga of one of the family's daughters, the only member of the family to not have participated in the purchase of the winning ticket, suing her father for a fraction of the jackpot; the subsequent family disputes that tore apart the family which dissipated its fortune, all of which received wide coverage in the mainstream media of Quebec. Jackpot The Lavigueurs lived in Centre-Sud, a neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec. Jean-Guy Lavigueur had been unemployed for a year and a half after having worked for 34 years at Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamond Film
The Diamond Film ( nl, Diamanten Film) is a film award recognising domestic box office achievements in the Netherlands. The Diamond Film is awarded to films from the Netherlands once they have sold 1,000,000 cinema tickets or more during the original circulation. The award is initiated by the Netherlands Film Festival and the Netherlands Film Fund in addition to the Golden Film for 100,000 visitors, the Platinum Film for 400,000 visitors, and the Crystal Film for 10,000 visitors of a documentary film. History The first Diamond Film was awarded to '' Black Book'' (2006) on 31 January 2007. The director of the Netherlands Film Festival presented the trophies to the producer San Fu Maltha, director Paul Verhoeven, and the film cast, during a dinner for the film crew and cast organized by San Fu Maltha. ''Black Book'' was the first film since the introduction of Dutch box office awards in 2001 that reached an audience of one million visitors. ''Black Book'' had a budget of €17,00 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Cohen
Horace Joshua Cohen (born 15 October 1971) is an American-Dutch actor and comedian. Career Film Cohen made his debut at age 15 as Henkie in the 1986 film ''Flodder'' directed by Dick Maas. This role was played by other actors in sequels and the spin-off television series. Cohen did make an appearance in small roles in the television series. In 2003, he played a role in the television film ''Brush with Fate''. In 2012, he played a role in the film '' Black Out'' directed by Arne Toonen. In 2019, he played a role in ''Amsterdam Vice'' (''Baantjer: Het Begin''), also by Arne Toonen. The film won the Golden Film award two weeks later after having sold 100,000 tickets. Television Between 1991 and 1994 he played a small role in the soap opera ''Goede tijden, slechte tijden''. He was a contestant in 2003 in the television show '' Bobo's in the bush'', the Dutch version of '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!''. In 2010, he was one of the team captains in the televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollonia Van Ravenstein
Apollonia van Ravenstein (born August 12, 1954) is a Dutch retired model and actress. She attained success in the 1970s as a fashion model and appeared on the cover of various ''Vogue'' magazines. As an actress, she had roles in the films ''Seraphita's Diary'' (1982), '' Nothing Lasts Forever'' (1984), and ''Flodder'' (1986). In the late 1990s, she began working as a hostess on luxury cruise ships of the Holland America Line. Life and career Apollonia van Ravenstein was born in Geldrop, Netherlands on August 12, 1954. She began her career at the age of 15 posing for a pantyhose collection in her hometown. Her brother Theo encouraged her to pursue a modeling career and arranged an appointment with Corine Rottschäfer's modeling agency in Amsterdam. She became one of the most sought-after models of the 1970s, modeling for Halston and Diane von Fürstenberg. She appeared on multiple ''Vogue'' magazine covers, including British ''Vogue'' (October 15, 1971, December 1971 and January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokkie
The epithet tokkie is used in the Netherlands as a pejorative noun for lower-class people who often are seen as likely to engage in anti-social behaviour, similar to the English chav, the Scottish ned, the South African zef and the Australian bogan. The term is derived from the surname Tokkie and came into general use when the Dutch family TokkieThe family no one wanted 6 August 2004 (archived) (who bear some resemblance to the fictional family from the eponymous Dutch comedy film of the 1980s) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politically Incorrect
''Political correctness'' (adjectivally: ''politically correct''; commonly abbreviated ''PC'') is a term used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society. Since the late 1980s, the term has been used to describe a preference for inclusive language and avoidance of language or behavior that can be seen as excluding, marginalizing, or insulting to groups of people disadvantaged or discriminated against, particularly groups defined by ethnicity, sex, gender, or sexual orientation. In public discourse and the media, the term is generally used as a pejorative with an implication that these policies are excessive or unwarranted. The phrase ''politically correct'' first appeared in the 1930s, when was used to describe dogmatic adherence to ideology in authoritarian regimes, such as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Early usage of the term ''politically correct'' by leftists in the 1970s and 1980 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |