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

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

2005-07-07 Netherlands, United Kingdom 120 Min. PG-13
5.3 3 votes

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.

Cast

JJ Feild is Tulse Luper
Tulse Luper
Scot Williams is Percy Hockmeister
Percy Hockmeister
Jack Wouterse is The Station Master
The Station Master
André Schneider is Man in Red
Caroline Dhavernas is Passion Hockmeister
Passion Hockmeister
Jordi Mollà is Jan Palmerion
Jan Palmerion
Isabella Rossellini is Madame Moitessier
Madame Moitessier
Debbie Harry is Fastidieux
Fastidieux
Raymond J. Barry is Stephen Figura
Stephen Figura
Stephen Billington is Tulse Luper
Michael Culkin is Luper Authority
Luper Authority

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