Last Supper

Last Supper

57 mins | Documentary | Dec. 3, 2005

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.

Last Supper

57 mins | Documentary | Dec. 3, 2005

Last Supper
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.
Producers
Original title Last Supper
Directors Lars Bergström, Mats Bigert
Writers Lars Bergström, Mats Bigert

Cast

Brian Price

as Former Death Row Chef

Mimi Martin

as Director of Food Studies

Sakae Menda

as Former Death Row Prisoner

Pra Kru Nanta

as Buddhist Monk

Bobby Olaguer

as Prison Chaplain

Johan Steynberg

as Former Executioner

Attha Youth

as Former Prison Warden