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Stories Set in The Hague
The Hague is the Netherlands' seat of government, a tidy coastal city of courts and palaces. It tries war criminals and hosts royals in the same grid, and its stories wear suits. The Trial of Ratko Mladic convened here; Van Gogh wrote his letters home from here. Open The Hague on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open The Hague on the StoryTerra map9 famous stories set in The Hague
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Browse 4 books and 5 movies set in The Hague.
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture. In this Penguin Classics…
The Trial of Ratko Mladic
The war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic accused of masterminding the murder of over 7000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in the 90s Bosnian war the worst crime in Europe since WW2.
The Black Tulip
'To have discovered the black tulip, to have seen it for a moment...then to lose it, to lose it forever!' Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip-grower, lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a…
Madly in Love
The film focuses on the tumultuous romance in the lives of four women in The Hague. Teenage daughter Eva her mother Judith aunt Barbara and older sister Anna make it under one roof Hague together a nice game of. They…
Ökozid
The consequences of the climate catastrophe are dramatic in 2034. Drought and floods destroy the livelihoods of millions of people. After the third storm tide in a row the headquarters of the International Court of…
The Fox
The Fox tells the story of The Hague-based Europol agent Simon Fox (Morgan C Jones). He leads a troubled life after he accidentally shot and killed a child. Struggling with this trauma Simon is confronted with a secret…
Beck 41 - Death in Samarra
A candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize is brutally stabbed to death in central Stockholm just after a meeting with two lawyers from the war tribunal in The Hague. One of the witnesses worked with Alex when she was in the…
Eline Vere
Eline Vere is a passionate and rebellious young socialite, living in The Hague in the late 19th century. Driven by a highly active imagination, she attempts to escape the narrow confines of her bourgeois existence, and…
Deep as the Marrow
Crackpots and left-wingers have talked about it for years, but no one with any real authority has ever considered it. It would be political suicide. But President Thomas Winston has taken the boldest and most bizarre…
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