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The Last Supper

A faithful count invites 12 enslaved people to a dinner to show them how to become happy in slavery. However, this 'Last Supper' goes differently than he expects.

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Deze voorstelling maakt deel uit van Rialto Filmclub met als gastspreker deze maand Ernst-Jan Pfauth.

The Last Supper (La última cena)

Havana, late 18th century. A count visits his sugar mill during Holy Week on the very same day that one of the slaves has run away. A pious, religious man, the count orders his cruel overseer to invite eleven slaves to dinner. There is a twelfth guest at the table as well, the recaptured runaway. The dinner is intended as a re-enactment of the Last Supper. Whilst they eat and drink, the count regales his guests with Christian stories and analogies to enlighten them about the possibility of happiness in slavery. The slaves in turn tell their stories of hardship. The count promises them a day off for the following Good Friday. The overseer has other ideas.

In this beautifully acted drama, the always politically aware director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea takes on issues such as freedom, truth and lies. Most notably, he connects them to religious motives: betrayal, death and resurrection.

Tomás GUTIÉRREZ ALEA (1928–1996, Cuba) wrote and directed more than twenty features, documentaries and shorts, and is a leading representative of the New Latin American Cinema movement concerned with neocolonialism and cultural identity. The Last Supper won the Golden Colon at the 1976 Huelva Latin American Film Festival and the Audience Award at the São Paulo International Film Festival in 1978.