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Cuba around 1800: A sugar cane plantation owner gathers twelve of his slaves on Maundy Thursday to celebrate a communion with them in the style of the Easter Passion, whereby he assigns himself the role of Jesus. He uses Bible legends to convince his ‘apostles’ that it is their greatest happiness to serve him humbly. In a drunken stupor, he allows them to go free the next day, but the slave overseer has other directives. When the count sees his economic interests threatened, he drops the mask of the patron and reveals himself to be a vengeful racist. ... Alea's masterpiece is a dense parable that describes in subtext the timeless conflict between colonial powers and the ‘Third World’. (Helmut Pflügl)