A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper

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.

• Peter GreenawayWriter
• Peter GreenawayDirector
• Borut KržišnikOriginal Music Composer

• JJ FeildTulse Luper / Floris Creps
• Roger ReesTulse Luper
• Stephen BillingtonTulse Luper
• Raymond J. BarryStephan Figura
• Ornella MutiMathilde Figura
• Steven MackintoshGünther Zeloty
• Jordi MollàHypolite / Gaudí / Jan Palmerion
• Ronald PickupMonsieur Moitessier
• Isabella RosselliniMadame Moitessier
• Franka PotenteTrixie Boudain
• Debbie HarryFastidieux
• Porgy FranssenOfficer Harpsch