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A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper

A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper

Part of Tulse Luper

2005•2h 0m•5.3/10
HistoryAdventureWarDrama

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5.3/10(3)

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.

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Production

Intuit Pictures, ABS Production, Gam Films, Focusfilm Kft., Kasander Film Company

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

JJ Feild

JJ Feild

Tulse Luper / Floris Creps

Roger Rees

Roger Rees

Tulse Luper

Stephen Billington

Stephen Billington

Tulse Luper

Raymond J. Barry

Raymond J. Barry

Stephan Figura

Ornella Muti

Ornella Muti

Mathilde Figura

Steven Mackintosh

Steven Mackintosh

Günther Zeloty

Jordi Mollà

Jordi Mollà

Hypolite / Gaudí / Jan Palmerion

Ronald Pickup

Ronald Pickup

Monsieur Moitessier

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini

Madame Moitessier

Franka Potente

Franka Potente

Trixie Boudain

Debbie Harry

Debbie Harry

Fastidieux

Porgy Franssen

Porgy Franssen

Officer Harpsch

Anna Galiena

Anna Galiena

Madame Plens

Caroline Dhavernas

Caroline Dhavernas

Passion Hockmeister

Scot Williams

Scot Williams

Percy Hockmeister

Roberto Citran

Roberto Citran

Raoul Wallenberg

Michael Culkin

Michael Culkin

Luper Authority

Noraly Beyer

Leslie Cotumely / Thomas Papier

Drew Mulligan

Martino Knockavelli

Yorick van Wageningen

Yorick van Wageningen

Julian Lephrenic

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