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Writers:
Constante Diego (dialogue)
Moreno Fraginals (novel)
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Release Date:
3 November 1977 (Spain) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins more
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they probably couldn't have made this movie twenty years earlier more (8 total)

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Also Known As:
The Last Supper
La última cena (Spain) [es]
Viimeinen ehtoollinen (Finland) [fi]
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Runtime:
120 min | Greece:105 min
Country:
Cuba
Language:
Spanish
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono

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References Viridiana (1961) more

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they probably couldn't have made this movie twenty years earlier, 19 July 2008
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Author: Lee Eisenberg (eisenberg.lee@gmail.com) from Portland, Oregon, USA

Admittedly, it's very likely improbable that a slave owner would do anything to treat his slaves as his equals. But apparently, "La ultima cena" ("The Last Supper" in English) is based on true events, although I don't know whether or not they changed anything. The movie portrays a slave owner in 18th century Cuba reenacting the famous final meal of Jesus, having his slaves play the disciples.

Of course, the movie's main purpose is to show slavery's brutality and the racism that was law of the land at the time. Aside from the total cruelty inflicted on black people - namely what the slave owner does at the end - someone talks about how white has to come before black (I can't remember the exact line, but it was something like that). As it was, this continued through the 1950s: even though Fulgencio Batista was dictator, he was mulatto and got excluded from an all-white club near Havana. It was only after the revolution that blacks achieved equal status.

For the most part, I recommend this movie. We may have read volumes about slavery, but you have to see it depicted; of course, probably no film can make us truly understand how horrible it was to experience slavery. This movie does what it can. Tomas Gutierrez Alea has turned out some good work.

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