A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
2005
120 minutes
Overview
A comic study of 20th century history, reconstructing the life of one Tulse Luper, a writer, project-maker and professional prisoner. He was born in 1911 in Newport, Wales and last heard of in 1989. The story of his life is here pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered around the world. This film condenses the seven hour trilogy into a single two-hour feature, and in doing so, accentuates the project as a filmic essay in multiple narratives, listings, side-bars, footnotes, commentaries and anecdotes; as a project for an Information Age ready to understand that there never is a phenomenon called History, there can only be Historians, who are always gatekeepers to vested interests.
Top Cast
JJ Feild
Tulse Luper
Scot Williams
Percy Hockmeister
Yorick van Wageningen
Lephrenic
Jack Wouterse
The Station Master
André Schneider
Man in Red
Caroline Dhavernas
Passion Hockmeister
Jordi Mollà
Jan Palmerion
Isabella Rossellini
Madame Moitessier
Debbie Harry
Fastidieux
Raymond J. Barry
Stephen Figura
Stephen Billington
Tulse Luper
Michael Culkin
Luper Authority
Steven Mackintosh
Gunther Zeloty
Ronald Pickup
Monsieur Moitessier
Maria Schrader
Felicite
Kevin Tighe
William Gottschalk
Ana Torrent
Charlotte des Arbres
Ornella Muti
Mathilde Figura
Anna Galiena
Madame Plens
Roger Rees
Tulse Luper
Franka Potente
Trixie Boudain
Drew Mulligan
Martino Knockavelli