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3 unusual facts about Tulse Luper


Tulse Luper

Tulse Luper is mentioned in Greenaway's early films A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist, Vertical Features Remake, The Falls and The Draughtsman's Contract, and appears as the major character in The Tulse Luper Suitcases.

Tulse Luper is a fictional character, created by film director Peter Greenaway.

He was at an East-West German checkpoint in 1963" ( Luper at Compton Verney ). The 92 suitcases thus tell Luper's story from 1928 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, sketching not so much the biography of one man as the story of a century related through some of its key events."


The Tulse Luper Suitcases

Once the online Web-based portion of the project was completed, the "winner" having taken a trip following Tulse Luper's travels (and often imprisonment) during his first writings about the discovery of uranium in Moab, Utah in 1928 to his mysterious disappearance at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the final, feature film was released.


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