Nederlands in 7 Lessen Online

Posted: 19th March, 2009

We have some really exciting news! Nederlands in 7 Lessen, Audrey's debut appearance in a motion picture, is available to view online.

Audrey was only 18 when she appeared in Nederlands in 7 Lessen and was paid fifty gilders for her part as KLM steward in Charles van der Linden's travelogue of the Netherlands.

This is a rare chance to see Audrey's first movie appearance, because it has never been available for the public to buy and it is rarely seen outside of the Netherlands. It is the full 79 minute version and Audrey makes her first appearance around 7 minutes in to the movie and appears again at around 48 minutes. The dialog in the movie is in Dutch and there are no subtitles.

Watch it while you can: Nederlands in 7 Lessen
(Windows Media Player required or Flip4Mac plugin for Quicktime on a Mac)

You can watch the two short clips featuring Audrey here:

10 Comments

1. Sophia said...
Charming, Charming as ever. Even thought I don't understand a word of it! aha, Xx
2. Prince Andrei said...
Wonderful! A diamond unearthed. A must for Audrey film collectors........she was just simply a natural! Anyone know where or how I can get hold of 'Monte Carlo Baby'? It's now the only early film of Audrey missing from my collection.
3. Willem in Amsterdam/New York said...
How wonderful! A real treat to see Audrey in this rare time capsule. Just simple and beautiful have been looking for this movie/documentary since November 2008 when I read an article about the movie, in Business Traveler Magazine on board a KLM trans-Atlantic flight from JFK-Amsterdam-Schiphol. KLM should have this out on there IFE-system
What fun I really enjoyed this!
Thanks for posting this on your web-page.
4. Andrea said...
"I saw a dream coming into the room" said "Nederlands" director when he met Audrey in his office.. and he was just the first of a long list to have this feeling - and privil�ge!
This is really a great gift, thank you so much for posting these clips..
5. Alessandro ... said...
Just wonderful! What a great emotion!

Last year I was visiting Audrey's grave in Tolochenaz (Vaud Canton, Switzerland) and since then I started to looking for her first movie appearance: something like "to close the circle" ...

Guys you did a great job in making available online "Nederlands in 7 Lessen": thank you so much!
6. White Cloud said...
As you may know, "Monte Carlo Baby" was filmed twice, once in English and once in French. The French version "Nous irons � Monte Carlo," is not a voice over, the dvd is available in France and is a rare opportunity to see Audrey perform in French, in which she was fluent.
7. Bhagwan Murthy, India said...
Please, won't someone speaking Dutch translate the dialogues into a text file and upload it, so that non-Dutch viewers like me can understand them?

Thanks
8. Megan Bos said...
I'm Dutch, and I wouldn't mind subbing the film, or the parts Audrey is in. But I can't seem to get the video to work, just the audio. Does the link still work?
9. Florence Kiff said...
What a great discovery. Thanks for posting this. The pilot Adriaan Viruly was my grand father. I had heard that he featured in her first movie, and here at last is the proof. ;)
10. fran�ois / Nederlands in 7 le said...
Bos Megan, have you write a neederlands subtitles?

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