The Tulse Luper Suitcases - Complete Trilogy ( The Moab Story / Vaux to the Sea / From Sark to the Finish ) ( Las Maletas de Tulse Luper: La historia de Moab / Las Maletas de Tulse Luper, 3a parte: De Vaux al final )

The Tulse Luper Suitcases - Complete Trilogy (DVD) (*)

Out of Stock

Original Title: The Moab Story / Vaux to the Sea / From Sark to the Finish
Alternate Title: Las Maletas de Tulse Luper: La historia de Moab / Las Maletas de Tulse Luper, 3a parte: De Vaux al final
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
355 min + 45 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2003 - 200 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Hungary ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Luxembourg ( France, Benelux )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )
Russia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Peter Greenaway

Written By:
Peter Greenaway

Actors:
JJ Feild ..... Tulse Luper
Caroline Dhavernas ..... Passion Hockmeister
Jordi Mollà ..... Jan Palmerion
Steven Mackintosh ..... Gunther Zeloty
Raymond J. Barry ..... Stephen Figura
Scot Williams ..... Percy Hockmeister
Drew Mulligan ..... Martino Knockavelli
Yorick van Wageningen ..... Julian Lephrenic
Jack Wouterse ..... Erik van Hoyten
Naím Thomas ..... Hercule
Nilo Mur ..... Pip
Valentina Cervi ..... Cissie Colpitts
Tom Bower ..... Tom Fender
Michèle Bernier ..... Sophie van Osterhuis
Barbara Tarbuck ..... Ma Fender
Raymond J. Barry ..... Stephan Figura
Marcel Iures ..... General Foestling
Steven Mackintosh ..... Günther Zeloty
Ornella Muti ..... Mathilde Figura
Anna Galiena ..... Madame Plens
Ronald Pickup ..... Monsieur Moitessier
Franka Potente ..... Trixie Boudain
Isabella Rossellini ..... Mme. Moitessier
Maria Schrader ..... Felicite
Francesco Salvi ..... Paul / Pierre
Ana Torrent ..... Charlotte des Arbres
Roger Rees ..... Tulse Luper
Stephen Billington ..... Tulse Luper
Jordi Mollà ..... Hypolite / Gaudí
Iori Hugues ..... Martino Knockavelli
Itziar Castro ..... Frances Cotumely
Esther Gómez ..... Lesley Cotumely
Flora Álvarez ..... Jeanne Cotumely
Joan-Francesc Ainaud ..... Doctor Hospital
Giovanni Capalbo ..... Heinkel
Roberto Citran ..... Raoul Wallenberg
Renata Litvinova ..... Constance Bulitsky
Kristina Orbakaite ..... Bouillard
Jochum ten Haaf

Synopsis:

The Tulse Luper Suitcases
Part 1: The Moab Story
Iconoclastic director Peter Greenaway begins his most ambitious project to date with this feature, the first in a proposed series of films, television programs, and multimedia projects that examine the contents of 92 suitcases, each revealed by title character Tulse Henry Purcel Luper. Broken into three sections spanning 1928 to 1940, The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part One follows our young hero from age 10, when he is reprimanded by his father for scrawling some graffiti on a wall in his desolate South Wales neighborhood. Years later, Tulse (JJ Field) is a desert explorer who winds up being further punished by the aptly-named dominatrix Passion Hockmeister (Caroline Dhavernas). Finally, in the film's last section, Tulse is in Antwerp at the start of World War II, where he ends up being imprisoned by Nazis. Told in a fractured, non-narrative style, The Tulse Luper Suitcases also incorporates many inter-titles, superimposed images, an ever-present narrator presented in a picture-within-picture format, intentionally fake-looking sets, and many, many references to other Greenaway films and characters.

Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Second part of the trilogy spans the period from the begining of the Second World War, during which Tulse Luper is held in a country house, up to the middle of the Cold War.

Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
The further adventures of writer, collector and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Covers his various incarcerations during the Second World War, from Sark to Rome, via Barcelona, Turin and Venice.

A sweeping trilogy/epic about the life and times of Tulse Luper, a man bigger than the world itself. The film covers some sixty years of recent history from 1928 when the existence of a substance called Uranium was discovered, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War in 1989. Tulse Luper, a writer and project-maker, is caught up in a life of prisons. There are a total of sixteen prisons in the story starting in South Wales, when Luper is ten years old, locked up for three hours by his father in a coalhouse for running the gauntlet of a series of backyard gardens to sign his name on a crumbling brick wall that collapses. Twelve years later in 1938 in Moab, Utah, Luper is arrested through his contact with an American-German family about to travel to Europe to engage explotatively in the Second World War. Four members of this family, deeply fascinated with Luper, will act as his jailers, with others interesteIn the 1980's Luper was apparently sighted in Beijing and in Shanghai. He was last seen in a Manchurian desert. Luper learns to use his prison time, writing on the prison walls, inventing projects in literature, theatre, fils and adventures. Because of their responsibilities, jailers are as much prisoners of their prisoners as they are freemen, and this connection between jailer and prisoner permeates this project and provides a geat deal of its drama. As Luper's reputation as a writer and project-maker grows in Europe and America, so his person becomes more fictional. A large 'Luper' Symposium and Ehibition is held in the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Many Luper lecturers offer their theories and propositions on the various stages of Luper's life. The central exhibit of the conference and exhibition is a collection of 92 suitcases - 92 appropriately being the atomic number of uranium - suitcases that Luper has supposedly been associated with in his travels and prisons. Over the years, the suitcases come to light all over the world. On the last evening of the 'Luper' New York Conference, a long awaited Luper suitcase - suitcase 92 - is opened . . .

An epic tale, covering more than sixty years, from 1928 when the existence of Uranium was first considered, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the end of the Cold War in 1989. Tulse Luper, a writer and a project-maker, is caught up in a life of prisons. There are a total of sixteen prisons in the story starting in South Wales, when Luper is ten years old, locked up for three hours by his father in a coalhouse for running the gauntlet of a series of backyard gardens to sign his name on a crumbling brick wall that collapses. Twelve years later in 1938 in Moab, Utah, Luper is arrested through his contact with an American-German family about to travel to Europe to engage exploitatively in the Second World War. Four members of this family, deeply fascinated with Luper, will act as his jailers, with others interested in uranium, around Europe for the next ten years. In the Cold War, years he is imprisoned in Moscow and Siberia, before appearing in Hong Kong and Kyoto. In the 1980s Luper was apparently sighted in Beijing and in Shanghai. He was last seen in a Manchurian desert. Luper learns to use his prison time, writing on the prisons walls, inventing projects in literature, theatre, film and painting, and engaging with his jailers in all manner of plots, schemes and adventures. Because of their responsibilities, jailers are as much prisoners of their prisoners as they are freemen, and this connection of jailer and prisoner permeates this project and provides a great deal of its drama.As Luper's reputation as a writer and project-maker grows in Europe and America, so his person becomes more fictional. A large 'Luper' Symposium and Exhibition is held in the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Many Luper lecturers offer their theories and propositions on the various stages of Luper's life. The central exhibit of the conference and exhibition is a collection of 92 suitcases - 92 appropriately being the atomic number of Uranium - suitcases that Luper had supposedly been associated with in his travels and prisons. Over the years, the suitcases come to light all over the world.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 18 May, 2009.

Customers who bought this product also purchased

The Belly of an Architect (Blu-Ray)	Puzzle of a Downfall Child (DVD)	St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (DVD)
Me and Orson Welles (DVD)	The Little Drummer Girl (1984) (DVD)	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (DVD)