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Last Supper

Dec 3, 2005

0h 57m

★ 9.0

Overview

Today, the ritual of giving the last supper to the condemned person has been detached from its origin, and can be perceived to be as absurd as the punishment it accompanies. Mats Bigert & Lars Bergström's film “The Last Supper” focuses on this discrepancy between historical “meaning” and contemporary use of a tradition that has lost its connection with the past. The main character is the former death row chef Brian Price, who reconstructs one of the 200 final meals that he prepared during his time as inmate in Huntsville State Prison, Texas.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

Former Death Row Chef

Brian Price

Director of Food Studies

Mimi Martin

Former Death Row Prisoner

Sakae Menda

Buddhist Monk

Pra Kru Nanta

Prison Chaplain

Bobby Olaguer

Former Executioner

Johan Steynberg

Former Prison Warden

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