A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper

The story

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.

Cast & crew

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