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 Greenaway
Writer, Director
JJ Feild
Tulse Luper / Floris Creps
Roger Rees
Tulse Luper
Stephen Billington
Tulse Luper
Raymond J. Barry
Stephan Figura
Ornella Muti
Mathilde Figura
Steven Mackintosh
Günther Zeloty
Jordi Mollà
Hypolite / Gaudí / Jan Palmerion
Ronald Pickup
Monsieur Moitessier
Isabella Rossellini
Madame Moitessier
The Way Back69%
For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada68%
The Professor and the Madman71%
The Last Rifleman66%
Papillon73%
Battleground67%
The Great Raid65%
Firebrand63%
A Call to Spy67%
Richard Jewell74%
Waiting for Anya62%
The Lost City of Z63%
The Scarlet and the Black70%
Flyboys65%
The Kill Team64%
The Monuments Men60%
The Current War66%
The Guns of Navarone72%
All Eyez on Me67%
The Survivor68%
