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

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

Drama Adventure History War
Release Date: 2005, July 7
Directors: Peter Greenaway
Countries: Spain, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Production: Intuit Pictures, ABS Production, Gam Films, Focusfilm Kft., Kasander Film Company
Cast: Michael Culkin, Jordi Mollà, Kevin Tighe, Roger Rees, Isabella Rossellini, Roberto Citran, Ronald Pickup, Franka Potente, Stephen Billington, JJ Feild, Steven Mackintosh, Raymond J. Barry

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.

Keywords:

20th century imprisonment anthology fictional biography suitcase edited from film