Tulse Luper Suitcases: From Sark To The Finish
Genre
The Tulse Luper Suitcases is a multimedia project by Peter Greenaway, initially intended to comprise three feature films, a 16-episode TV series, and 92 DVDs, as well as web sites, CD-ROMs and books.
Synopsis
In the third film of the series, Luper, writer, collector and archivist, continues his adventures as a professional prisoner during the later years of the Second World War and its aftermath, the Cold War.
Tulse Luper is shipwrecked on the paradise island of Sark and spends three months in self-imposed imprisonment on an idyllic beach until betrayed to the Germans by a trio of jealous sisters. Pursued by a bounty-hunting jailer, he escapes to Barcelona to support and protect the lesbian marriage between one jailer's wife and another jailer¹s mistress. He is a coerced lift-boy in the Mole Antonelliana, privy to the lives and secrets of Italian Fascist-beleaguered citizens in Turin, including Primo Levi. He is in Venice where he drowns his jailer Zeloty, and in Rome where he finally becomes his jailer Lephrenic¹s lover who is dying of uranium poisoning. He escapes north to Budapest to assist two mortuary attendants in their self-imposed task of dragging Jewish corpses from the Danube, where he meets Raoul Wallenberg, and then he is imprisoned on a checkpoint-post bridge on the East-West German border in 1965, blackmailed for his freedom by a ferocious chess-playing Russian Colonel and his wife who demands stories that, Scherherazade-like, Luper supplies before escaping when he has completed a new collection of tales for 1001 European Nights. Paralleling his adventures, Luper's reputation as a writer and as a collector grows, and the 92 suitcases associated with his life are presented in a grand exhibition that culminates in the official unpacking of his 92nd suitcase that reveals an elaborate hoax that implies that Luper may never have had the existence he is supposed to have had, but may have been killed in a childhood accident when he was ten years old, and his long life could have been an elaborate fiction created in love and guilt by his childhood friend, Martino Knockavelli.
JJ Feild role
Tulse Luper
Links
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