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.
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