The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3 - From Sark to the Finish (2003) - Turner Classic Movies

Brief Synopsis

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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.

Cast & Crew

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Peter Greenaway

J. J. Feild

Valentina Cervi

Drew Mulligan

Caroline Dhavernas

Jack Wouterse

Film Details

Also Known As

From Sark to Finish, Tulse Luper Suitcases - Part 3, Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3 - From Sark to the Finish, Tulse Luper Suitcases: Episode 3, The

Genre

Drama

Experimental

Period

Release Date

2003

Production Company

Fortissimo Films; The Kasander Film Company

Distribution Company

Fortissimo Films

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 48m

Synopsis

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.

Director

Peter Greenaway

Cast

J. J. Feild

Valentina Cervi

Drew Mulligan

Caroline Dhavernas

Jack Wouterse

Nigel Terry

Raymond J Barry

Deborah Harry

Steven Mackintosh

Jordi Mollà

Kevin Tighe

Scot Williams

Yorick Van Wageningen

Crew

Wouter Barendrecht

Executive Producer

Eva Baro

Jimmy De Brabant

Carlo Dusi

Executive Producer

Kees Kasander

Borut Krzisnik

Elmer Leupen

Alexander Mikhaylov

Gherardo Pagliei

Aron Sipos

Antoni Sole

Sandor Söth

Reinier Van Brummelen

Director Of Photography

Michael J. Werner

Executive Producer

Chris Wyatt

Film Details

Also Known As

From Sark to Finish, Tulse Luper Suitcases - Part 3, Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3 - From Sark to the Finish, Tulse Luper Suitcases: Episode 3, The

Genre

Drama

Experimental

Period

Release Date

2003

Production Company

Fortissimo Films; The Kasander Film Company

Distribution Company

Fortissimo Films

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 48m

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Miscellaneous Notes

Released in United States 2003

Project was filmed in installments as a series of three feature-length films.

Released in United States 2003

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