A must-see and recommended watch, I’ve embedded the film in full (with subtitles) below. The film is also available on Netflix, although not streaming. The 1976 Cuban film The Last Supper (La Ultima Cena), directed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea from a screenplay penned by Alea and Maria Eugenia Haya, is based on a real life incident, which occurred in Cuba during the 1780’s. Alea, whose directorial efforts include the acclaimed films Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) and Death of a Bureaucrat (1966), was inspired by a footnote in Manuel Moreno Fraginals’ post-revolutionary historiography The Sugarmill, in which a plantation owner - on a Maundy Thursday (before Good...
- 7/31/2012
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
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