Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 28, 1956
Place of Birth
Montevideo, Uruguay
Credits
89 titles
Luca Barbareschi
Biography
Luca Barbareschi (born 28 July 1956 in Montevideo) is an Italian-Uruguayan actor, television presenter, and former member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Barbareschi is Jewish. He was one of four actors whom the Italian police believed had been murdered in the making of the 1980 horror film Cannibal Holocaust, where he also abused and killed a young piglet. So realistic was the film that shortly after it was released its director Ruggero Deodato was arrested on suspicions of murder. The actors had signed contracts to stay out of the media for a year in order to fuel rumours that the film was a snuff movie. The court was only convinced that they were alive when the contracts were cancelled and the actors appeared on a television show as proof. In 2008, he was elected as Member of the Italian Parliament at the Chamber of Deputies with Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right party The People of Freedom. In 2010 he joined, with other 32 deputies and 10 senators, the Gianfranco Fini's new party Future and Freedom. He left parliament in 2013. On 11 June 2012 he becomes the protagonist of an attack against Filippo Roma, a journalist. He attacked the cameraman Marco Occhipinti destroying the camera and stealing his personal smartphone, with which he was filming the attack. The police rushed to the scene but without making any arrest, unable to search him for parliamentary immunity. The journalist filed a complaint for theft, but according to some witnesses the cell phone, never returned, would have been destroyed by Barbareschi. On 28 August 2012 in Filicudi a similar event is repeated which sees Barbareschi attack again with kicks and punches the journalist Filippo Roma and hit his cameraman. Source: Article "Luca Barbareschi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Filmography
Paradiso in vendita
Producer
La lunga notte - La caduta del Duce
Producer
La luce nella masseria
Producer
The Palace
Bongo
The Penitent: A Rational Man
Charles
Bla Bla Baby
Producer
La voglia matta di vivere
Self
Ero in guerra ma non lo sapevo
Producer
Notes from a Women Salesman
Producer
Chiara Lubich - L'amore vince tutto
Producer
Cursed Films
Self
La mia banda suona il pop
Producer
If You Love Me
Producer
An Officer and a Spy
Philippe Monnier
Rising Heartbeats
Executive Producer
L'Aquila - Grandi speranze
Riccardo De Angelis
DolceRoma
Oscar Martello
Modalità aereo
Producer
Mia Martini - I Am Mia
Production Manager
On Your Tiptoes
Producer
Rocco Chinnici: May Your Kiss Lie Lightly On My Head
Producer
Ugly Nasty People
Producer
The Startup
Producer
Pietro Mennea - La freccia del Sud
Carlo Vittori
Pietro Mennea - La freccia del sud
In Love with an Angel
Producer
Something Good
Matteo
Adriano Olivetti
Producer
Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno
Producer
Zodiaco - Il libro perduto
Creator
Nero Wolfe
Producer
Il sogno del maratoneta
Producer
Walter Chiari - Fino all'ultima risata
Producer
Noi c'eravamo
Self
We Believed
Antonio Gallenga
The International
Umberto Calvini
Zodiac
Producer
Donna Roma
Marcello
Someone to Run With
Co-Producer
Fog and Crimes
Commissario Franco Soneri
The Accursed Kings
Spinello Tolomei
Rivoglio i miei figli
Walter
In the Jungle: The Making Of Cannibal Holocaust
Himself
Il Trasformista
Augusto Viganò
You Only Live Once
Nicolas
Wanderjahre
Luigi
The Frenchman's Son
Aureliano
Jesus
Herodes Antipas
Jesus
Herod
Cronaca Nera: Delitti al Torraccio
Walter Cherubini