A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
2005 · 2h · N/A
Adventure, Drama, History, War
Directed by
Peter Greenaway
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A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
Overview
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper’s life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered across the globe. A Life in Suitcases condenses the six-hour trilogy into a single two-hour feature, and in doing so, accentuates the project as a filmic essay in multiple narratives, listings, sidebars, footnotes, commentaries and anecdotes; a project for an Information Age ready to understand that there never is a phenomenon called History, there can only be Historians, gatekeepers to vested interests.
Director and cast
- Peter Greenaway Director
- JJ Feild as Tulse Luper
- Roger Rees as Tulse Luper
- Yorick van Wageningen as Lephrenic
- Stephen Billington as Tulse Luper
- Jack Wouterse as The Station Master
- Raymond J. Barry as Stephan Figura
- André Schneider as Man in Red
- Ornella Muti as Mathilde Figura
- Steven Mackintosh as Günther Zeloty
- Jordi Mollà Cast
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