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Half French, half German, fully itself: Strasbourg has changed countries five times in 150 years and hosts Europe's parliament as compensation. That borderland identity shapes quiet, in-between stories. Sauvage walks its streets after dark. Open Strasbourg on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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8 famous stories set in Strasbourg

Live snapshot of the top 8 most popular catalogue items (2026-09-05). Click any card to open this entry on the live map.

Browse 4 books and 4 movies set in Strasbourg.

Sauvage

Sauvage

Les Films de la Croisade
movie

Léo a 22-year-old homeless sex worker searches for genuine love on the streets of Strasbourg.

Setting: Strasbourg, FranceTime Period: Contemporary
Tous les soleils

Tous les soleils

Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC)
movie

Alessandro teaches musicology at the university of Strasbourg. He is also a volunteer reader in hospitals. He shares his apartment with his daughter 15-year-old Irina and his anarchist brother Luigi. Life is not always…

Setting: Strasbourg, FranceTime Period: 2011
May Allah Bless France

May Allah Bless France

France 2 Cinéma-Les Films du Kiosque
movie

French rapper author and spoken word artist Abd Al Malik makes his directorial debut with this adaptation of his 2004 autobiography chronicling his upbringing in the crime- and drug-ridden streets of Strasbourg and his…

Setting: Strasbourg, FranceTime Period: 1980s-2000s
The Other Woman

The Other Woman

by Daniel Silva
book

She was his best-kept secret …In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child…

Setting: ['Washington, DC (United States)', 'Tel Aviv (Israel)', 'London, England', 'Seville (Spain)', 'Vienna (Austria)', 'Jerusalem (Israel)', 'Hampshire, England', 'Andalusia (Spain)', 'Israel', 'Bern (Switzerland)', 'Spain', 'England', 'Strasbourg (France)', 'Austria', 'Montreal, Quebec (Montréal, Québec) (Canada)', 'Dartmoor, Devon, England', 'Switzerland', 'Budapest (Hungary)']Time Period: 2007
Baden Baden

Baden Baden

RTBF-Tarantula-Artémis Productions-ChevalDeuxTrois
movie

Charts the trials and tribulations of Ana a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough to feel out of place everywhere.

Setting: Strasbourg, FranceTime Period: Contemporary
Servant of the Bones

Servant of the Bones

by Anne Rice
book

SERVANT OF THE BONES is Anne Rice's new electrifying novel, with a hero as mesmerising, seductive and ambivalent as the vampire Lestat. Azriel is a restless Jewish spirit, born almost 2500 years ago in Babylon, who can…

Setting: Babylon, Iraq; Greece; Mongolian Steppes; Strasbourg, France; New York, USATime Period: UNKNOWN
Europa

Europa

by Tim Parks
book

At the midpoint of his life, Jerry Marlow finds himself on a bus from Milan to Strasbourg, taking stock of the wreckage strewn behind him -- a failed marriage, a daughter going astray, and an affair that has left him…

Setting: Milan, Italy; Strasbourg, FranceTime Period: 1997
Dark and Deepest Red

Dark and Deepest Red

by Anna-Marie McLemore (Goodreads Author)
book

Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have…

Setting: Strasbourg, France; Modern Day USATime Period: 1518; Strasbourg

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