The Last Supper

Directed by Cynthia Roberts

Canada, 1995 (fiction, 96 minutes, colour, English)

Also known as "Das letzte Abendmahl "

Film Description:
"Dancer (Ken McDougall) dying of AIDS choreographs the last ninety minutes of his life before choosing to have euthanasia performed by a compassionate doctor (Daniel MacIvor) to end his suffering. Director Cynthia Roberts and producer/co-screenwriter Greg Klymkiw shot this harrowing drama at the Casey House AIDS Hospice in Toronto. Veteran actor McDougall slipped into a final coma and died four days after shooting was completed."
-- Winnipeg Film Group (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by:	Greg Klymkiw, Hillar Liitoja, Cynthia Roberts
Based on:	The Last Supper, a play by Hillar Liitoja
Produced by:	Greg Klymkiw
Principal Cast:	Daniel MacIvor, Ken McDougall, J.D. Nicholsen
Cinematography:	Harald Bachmann
Film Editing:	Cynthia Roberts, Su Rynard
Music:	Nicholas Stirling
Production Company:	Greg Klymkiw Productions

(sources)

Quote about The Last Supper

"Ken McDougall was actually dying of AIDS as the film [The Last Supper] was being shot and died a few days after the end of production. When I saw the film for the first time at the Vancouver Film Festival in the fall of 1994, I didn't know about McDougall's condition, which [Cynthia] Roberts and [Greg] Klymkiw discussed only after the screening. Yet I knew from the first few images of the film that the actor was at once performing and not performing death, at once playing the role of a dying man and simply being a dying man. As much as his voice and body language seemed contrived in the performance of terminal illness, his body was speaking of death in a way that no actor can reproduce."
-- André Loiselle (source)

Bibliography for The Last Supper

Brief Sections of Books

Loiselle, André. Stage-Bound: Feature Film Adaptations of Canadian and Québécois Drama. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. (pp. 206-208)

Web Sites about The Last Supper

"IMDb: The Last Supper." Internet Movie Database, Inc. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110310/reference.