Reviews

This mini-series was a revolution in 1978. Showed by all regional television-stations nearly 20 Million people saw this first fictional treatment of the unexplainable. And there was resonance: people tried to boycott it, a broadcasting-tower was assassinated by people afraid of the very own past.

There was no family Weiss whose story is told here. But every character is a symbol of what happened to people when society is rather emotional than rational. There was no other way to tell a lot of people of the past than to pair it with a emotional story. One of the absolutely top-acts in German television.

Frank Werner

Well, at first you are astonished and laugh about the Flodder-Family. But if the movie continues you will see, that the freaks on this story are not the Family. It may be the truth that, to identify freaks positively, you have to confront them with other freaks.

Works still after 32 years. One of my favourite movies.