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Luca Barbareschi
Born: 28th Jul 1956 Montevideo, Uruguay
Dept: Acting
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.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 63
Film: 48 (76%)
Television: 15 (24%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Action, Reality, Talk, Music, Fantasy
Filmography
2023
A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect. ... view
Character:
Bongo
2023
A psychiatrist, Charles, has his career and life become derailed after he refuses to testify on behalf of a former patient who had become clinically v ... view
Character:
Charles
Apr 2020 (first aired)
A documentary series exploring the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood’s notoriously “cursed” horror film productions. From plane acciden ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Original title: J'accuse
2019
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony. ... view
Character:
Philippe Monnier
2019
Andrea Serrano is a young aspiring writer who, to make ends meet, is forced to wash corpses in a mortuary, while struggling to finish his first novel, ... view
Character:
Oscar Martello
2013
In a small Chinese village in Yunnan, a young woman named Xiwen sees her little son Shitou die of poisoning from adulterated food. On the other side o ... view
Character:
Matteo
Original title: Noi credevamo
2010
1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking ... view
Character:
Antonio Gallenga
2009
An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading ... view
Character:
Umberto Calvin
Mar 2007 (first aired)
Donna Roma is a four-part mini-series thriller from director James Schäuffelen who plays in Italy or Germany. The first broadcast took place on 1 Mar ... view
Character:
Marcello (4 ep.)
Character:
Commissario Franco Soneri (14 ep.)
Nov 2005 (first aired)
A sequence of seven episodes detailing the French monarchy. ... view
Character:
Spinello Tolomei (1 ep.)
Feb 2004 (first aired)
The struggle of a woman against her ex-husband to have custody of their children. The first attempt to incapacitate ex husband to his wife and, when t ... view
Character:
Walter (2 ep.)
Original title: Nella giungla: The Making of Cannibal Holocaust
2003
An Italian documentary that gives an inside look at the making of Ruggero Deodato's controversial horror film "Cannibal Holocaust". ... view
Character:
Himself
2002
The Turin area is devastated by floods: the Pô River has overflown and toxic waste from a local dump is now being carried by the stream. Which is why ... view
Character:
Augusto Viganò
Original title: On n'a qu'une vie
2000
A man and a woman meet and decide to leave everything behind. They leave for Malta and it is great happiness, ecstasy, but the past soon resurfaces. ... view
Character:
Nicolas
May 2000 (first aired)
Jesus is a Biblical telefilm that retells the story of Jesus. It was shot in Morocco and Malta. It stars Jeremy Sisto as Jesus, Jacqueline Bisset as M ... view
Character:
Herod (2 ep.)
Original title: Le Fils du Français
1999
A young boy and his two grandmothers flee from headhunters and other villainous types in the Brazilian rain forest in this wacky family adventure. Ben ... view
Character:
Aureliano
1999
Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah. ... view
Character:
Herodes Antipas
1998
Walter and his father, during a trip outside the city, give a ride to Ivano, a young man passionate about birdwatching. A few hours later, the young m ... view
Character:
Walter Cherubini
1998
The wife of the goalkeeper of the local water polo team, Tavernari, is found dead in her apartment. Walter Cherubini, who recently met them for work r ... view
Character:
Walter Cherubini
1998
Walter Cherubini, in the middle of the night, receives a mysterious phone call in the editorial office. This is the widow Mazzanti, admitted to a famo ... view
Character:
Walter Cherubini
Oct 1998 (first aired)
Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, ... view
Character:
Capitano Settentrionali (1 ep.)
1998
A night watchman is killed and the newspaper La Provincia tries to build a scoop, pretending there is a serial killer behind it. However, someone trie ... view
Character:
Walter Cherubini
1998
A hit-and-run driver hits and kills a little girl in Pontevico. The latter's father, a long-time friend of Walter, asks the reporter to investigate th ... view
Character:
Walter Cherubini
1998
Walter investigates the death of a wealthy local businessman. The main suspect in the crime is his wife Clea, beneficiary of the life insurance, who a ... view
Character:
Walter Cherubini
1998
Walter Cherubini, reporter for the newspaper La Provincia di Parma, is transferred to crime news due to a dispute with the editor. Despite his inexper ... view
Character:
Walter Cherubini
1997
Summer 1969 is very special for Andrea a 13 year-old boy who is about to leave, with his family, for a little village on the hills surrounding a great ... view
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1996
A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity. ... view
Character:
Soldier (segment "Prima linea")
1996
The new captain of the Carabinieri, Fabio Leopardi, arrives in a quiet provincial town, called to investigate the possible existence of a satanic sect ... view
Character:
Fabio Leonardi
Original title: Il cielo è sempre più blu
1996
Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from It ... view
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Original title: La Bionda
1993
Coming back from work by night, shy watchmaker Tommaso runs over a girl with his car, luckily without serious consequences. Next day he finds her wait ... view
Character:
Annibali
1990
1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome. ... view
Character:
Giovanni Livraghi
1988
Love triangles often provoke the most unpredictable behavior. Will anybody end up happily in love at the end of this amorous debacle? One outrageous s ... view
Character:
Paolo
1988
Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder h ... view
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Italian man on Lake Tahoe plank (uncredited)
Original title: Ti presento un'amica
1987
Romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome. ... view
Character:
Claudio
1987
Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino. ... view
Character:
Gino
1987
Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diver ... view
Character:
Guido
1986
A father and son try to reconcile spending a few days together and confronting each other also through their own marital experiences. ... view
Character:
Andrea
Original title: Inferno in diretta
1985
A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massa ... view
Character:
Bud
1985
Friendship and competition among a group of bank clerks in 1980s Italy. ... view
Character:
Enrico
1984
The two-episode television drama tells the story of a family willing to do anything to maintain possession of their assets, even two brutal murders th ... view
Character:
Brigadiere Sanna
1984
Paolo and Carlo are good friends. The first introverted, disillusioned and intellectual, while the other is happy if shallow. Despite their difference ... view
Character:
Carlo
Feb 1984 (first aired)
The story tells the life, the successes, the loves and the decadence of Augustine Caroline Otéro Iglesias, called “La Bella Otéro”. The history ... view
Character:
Max (4 ep.)
Original title: Sogno di una notte d'estate
1983
Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". ... view
Character:
Lysander
1983
Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman's beliefs are challenged when she's appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, born in the United States to surv ... view
Character:
Young Lawyer
1983
Marco, an Italian young man in New York, hopes to find Valerie, a girl he once had a fling with. ... view
Character:
Marco
1980
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were ... view
Character:
Mark Tomaso
Original title: Da Corleone a Brooklyn
1979
Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York Ci ... view
Character:
New York Cop
