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3 unusual facts about In Bruges


A Hundred Miles Off

The track "Brandy Alexander" is featured in the 2008 film, In Bruges.

Belfry of Bruges

The building is a central feature of the 2008 film In Bruges.

On Raglan Road

The Luke Kelly version was also featured in a poignant scene in the 2008 film In Bruges.


Graham Broadbent

His first two productions were released in 2007: Becoming Jane (2007) by Julian Jarrold, with Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy, and Wind Chill (2006) by Gregory Jacobs, with Emily Blunt, which was co-produced by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh and In Bruges (2007).

Mark Donovan

Mark Donovan (born 12 October 1968) is a Welsh character actor best known for grotesque roles in productions such as Shaun of the Dead, Black Books, In Bruges, and Murder Investigation Team.


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Adriaen Isenbrandt

In his critical exhibition catalogue of Early Flemish Masters in Bruges in 1902, the Ghent great connoisseur of early Flemish Art and art historian Georges Hulin de Loo, came to the conclusion that Isenbrandt was actually the anonymous Master of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin and the author of a large body of paintings previously attributed to Gerard David and Jan Mostaert by the German art historian Gustav Friedrich Waagen.

Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland

When Graham betrayed her husband to James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, she and her baby escaped to the Continent, arriving in Bruges on 31 August 1570, where she sought aid from Pope Pius V and King Philip II of Spain to raise money for her husband's ransom; the Pope gave her four thousand crowns and King Philip sent her six thousands marks.

Bruges Group

The group was set up by Lord Harris of High Cross and an Oxford University student Patrick Robertson following Margaret Thatcher's Eurosceptic speech delivered in Bruges in September 1988.

Dorjana Širola

In 2011 she won Silver with her club "Europalia" (Derk de Graaf (Netherlands), Thomas Kolåsæter (Norway), Holger Waldenberger (Germany)) at the European Quizzing Championships in Bruges

Dutch gable

In Potsdam, Germany, 150 red brick houses featuring steep Dutch gables form part of the city's Dutch Quarter, while in Bruges, Belgium, a wide range of buildings featuring Dutch gables can be found.

Eglė Rakauskaitė

The same year she got a fellowship from the Spike Island International and the participated at the European Cultural Parliament in Bruges where she debated on the issues concerning the identity and politics.

Emile Zuckerkandl

Emanuel Margoliash's first publication of sequence data for cytochrome c allowed comparison of the rates of molecular evolution for different proteins (cytochrome c seemed to evolve faster than hemoglobin), which Zuckerkandl discussed at a 1964 conference in Bruges.

Francis John Deane

He was born in Madras, India, the son of Francis J. Deane, and was educated in Bruges, Belgium.

Frescobaldi

From an early economic base in the Italian community of cloth merchants in Bruges, the Frescobaldi expanded their banking interests to their home city of Florence in the 13th century.

Geoffrey R. Denton

He served as Director of Wilton Park, and formerly as Reader in Economics at the University of Reading (from 1967) and Professor and head of economics at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Jan van Eyck

He married the much younger Margaret around 1432 at about the same time he bought a home in Bruges.

Johann Veldener

Evidence indicates that Veldener assisted Caxton in setting up his printing office in Bruges and helped printing his first work there, the 1472-1473 Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye by Raoul Lefèvre.

Jon Ola Norbom

He graduated as cand.oecon. from the University of Oslo in 1949, and studied international economics and European integration at the College of Europe in Bruges 1952-1953.

Louis de Gruuthuse

In the Tournament of the White Bear, held in Bruges every year, Loys took part in 1443, 1444, 1447, 1448 and 1450.

Mother Mary More

Mother More helped English Jesuits and their pupils ejected from their school in Bruges (the predecessor of Stonyhurst College) by the Emperor Joseph II in 1772.

Philip Klapwijk

After studies at the London School of Economics and the College of Europe in Bruges where he obtained degrees in economics he started work as an analyst with Gold Fields Mineral Services (now GFMS), a precious metals and base metals forecasting & consultancy company specialising in global gold, silver, platinum and palladium market research, reports, annual reviews and analysis.

Simon Stevin

In Bruges there is a Simon Stevin Square which contains his statue by Eugène Simonis, which includes his inclined plane diagram.

Sir John Donne

The Donne Triptych by Hans Memling would presumably have been made in Bruges, and is believed to date from the 1470s.

Till-Holger Borchert

He has curated a number of major exhibitions, including "Memling's Portraits", which showed in Bruges, at the Frick Collection in New York and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.