A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper (2005)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

JJ Feild

Tulse Luper / Floris Creps

Roger Rees

Tulse Luper

Stephen Billington

Tulse Luper

Raymond J. Barry

Stephan Figura

Ornella Muti

Mathilde Figura

Steven Mackintosh

Günther Zeloty

Jordi Mollà

Hypolite / Gaudí / Jan Palmerion

Ronald Pickup

Monsieur Moitessier

Isabella Rossellini

Madame Moitessier

Franka Potente

Trixie Boudain

Debbie Harry

Fastidieux

Porgy Franssen

Officer Harpsch

Director & Crew

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