Francesca Ciardi (born 26 July 1954) is an Italian film actress.
She was one of four actors whom the Italian police believed had been murdered in the making of the 1980 horror film ''
Cannibal Holocaust''. The film was considered so realistic, that shortly after the film was released, its director
Ruggero Deodato
Ruggero Deodato (born 7 May 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and sometime actor.
His career has spanned a wide-range of genres including peplum, comedy, drama, poliziottesco and science fiction, yet he is perhaps best known f ...
was arrested for 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
A snuff film, or snuff movie, or snuff video, is a type of film that shows, or purports to show, scenes of actual homicide. The concept of snuff films became known to the general public during the 1970s, when an urban legend alleged that a clan ...
. The court was only convinced that they were alive when the contracts were cancelled and the actors appeared on a television show as proof.
Ruggero Deodato
Ruggero Deodato (born 7 May 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and sometime actor.
His career has spanned a wide-range of genres including peplum, comedy, drama, poliziottesco and science fiction, yet he is perhaps best known f ...
(interview), ''In the Jungle: The Making of Cannibal Holocaust'', Alan Young Pictures, Italy, 2003.Ruggero Deodato
Ruggero Deodato (born 7 May 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and sometime actor.
His career has spanned a wide-range of genres including peplum, comedy, drama, poliziottesco and science fiction, yet he is perhaps best known f ...
, interview with Sage Stallone and Bob Murawski, ''Cult-Con 2000'', Cannibal Holocaust DVD Commentary, Tarrytown, New York, 2000.
In 2014, after over twenty years out of the film business, Ciardi returned to film in Spencer Hawken's
zero budget movie ''
Death Walks
''Death Walks'' is a zero-budget horror film directed by Spencer Hawken. The film stars Jessie Williams, Lucinda Rhodes-Flaherty, and Francesca Ciardi, and centres on a group of people trying to survive inside a shopping center that is unde ...
''.
Filmography
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Cannibal Holocaust'' (1980) - Faye
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The Tunnel'' (1980)
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Caccia al ladro d'autore'' (1985) (TV series)
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La ragazza dei lilla'' (1985)
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Mosca addio
''Farewell Moscow'' ( it, Mosca addio) is a 1987 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. For this film Liv Ullmann was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Actress. It is based on the life of Russian Jew Ida Nudel.
Cast
* Liv U ...
'' (1987)
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Safari'' (1991)
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Death Walks
''Death Walks'' is a zero-budget horror film directed by Spencer Hawken. The film stars Jessie Williams, Lucinda Rhodes-Flaherty, and Francesca Ciardi, and centres on a group of people trying to survive inside a shopping center that is unde ...
'' (2016)
See also
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Carl Gabriel Yorke
Carl Gabriel Yorke (born November 23, 1952) is an American actor.
He was one of four actors who the Italian police believed had been murdered in the making of the 1980 horror film, '' Cannibal Holocaust''.Ruggero Deodato (interview), ''In the Ju ...
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Perry Pirkanen
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Luca Barbareschi
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 ha ...
References
External links
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Francesca Ciardi at the Chiller Theatre Expo 2010
Italian film actresses
1954 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Italian actresses
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