Luca Barbareschi (born 28 July 1956 in Montevideo) is an Italian-Uruguayan actor, television presenter, and former member of the

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. 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

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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

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. The court was only convinced that they were alive when the contracts were cancelled and the actors appeared on a television show as proof.

(interviewee), ''In the Jungle: The Making of Cannibal Holocaust'', Alan Young Pictures, Italy, 2003.

, interview with Sage Stallone and Bob Murawski, ''Cult-Con 2000'', Cannibal Holocaust DVD Commentary, Tarrytown, New York, 2000. In 2008, he was elected as Member of the Italian Parliament at the Chamber of Deputies with

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's centre-right party

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. In 2010 he joined, with other 32 deputies and 10 senators, the Gianfranco Fini's new party

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. He left parliament in 2013. On 28 August 2012 in

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a similar event is repeated which sees Barbareschi attack again with kicks and punches the journalist Filippo Roma and hit his cameraman.

Filmography

Cinema

*1977 - ''

Ultimo mondo cannibale ''Ultimo mondo cannibale'' (English: ''Last Cannibal World''; also known as ''Cannibal'', ''Jungle Holocaust'' and ''The Last Survivor'') is a 1977 Italian cannibal exploitation film directed by Ruggero Deodato and written by Tito Carpi, Gianfr ...

'' *1979 - '' Da Corleone a Brooklyn'' *1980 - '' Cannibal Holocaust'' as Mark *1983 - '' Dream of a Summer Night'' *1984 - '' Impiegati'' *1986 - ''

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'' *1987 - '' Private Affairs'' *1988 - '' Bye Bye Baby'' *1990 - '' In nome del popolo sovrano'' *1991 - '' L'amico arabo'' *1992 - ''

La bionda La Bionda were an Italian disco duo consisting of siblings Carmelo (1949–2022) and Michelangelo La Bionda (born 1952). They are considered among the pioneers of the Italo disco music genre. The siblings were born in Ramacca, Sicily and moved ...

'' *1992 - '' Obiettivo indiscreto'' *1994 - '' La delegazione'' *1995 - '' La tenda nera'' *1995 - '' La famiglia Ricordi'' *1995 - '' Il cielo è sempre più blu'' *1996 - '' Ardena'' *1999 - '' Le fils du Français'' *2002 - '' Il Trasformista'' *2008 - '' The International'' *2010 - ''

Noi credevamo ''We Believed'' ( it, Noi credevamo) is a 2010 Italian drama film directed by Mario Martone, based on a screenplay by Martone and Giancarlo De Cataldo inspired by events around the 19th-century Young Italy political movement and based on the nove ...

'' *2013 - '' Something Good'' (director, actor) *2019 - ''

An Officer and a Spy ''An Officer and a Spy'' is a 2013 historical fiction thriller by the English writer and journalist Robert Harris. It tells the true story of the French officer Georges Picquart from 1896 to 1906, as he struggles to expose the truth about the ...

'' (producer) *2023 - ''

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'' (producer)

Television

*1992 - '' Questo è amore'' *1992 - ''That's Amore'' *1997 - '' Trenta righe per un delitto'' *1998 - '' Cronaca nera'' *1999 - ''

Jesus Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label= Hebrew/ Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religiou ...

'' *2000 - ''Greed'' *2002 - '' Giorni da leone'' *2003 - '' Una vita in regalo'' *2004 - '' Rivoglio i miei figli'' *2005 - ''

Nebbie e delitti ''Nebbie e delitti'' is an Italian crime television series. It is distributed as ''Fog and Crimes'' in the United States and Canada. Cast *Luca Barbareschi: Inspector Soneri *Natasha Stefanenko: Angela Cornelio *Gianluca Gobbi: Juvara *Giuseppe ...

'' *2005 - ''

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'' *2006 - '' Giorni da leone 2'' *2006 - '' La profezia dei templari'' *2007 - '' Nebbie e delitti 2'' *2009 - '' Nebbie e delitti 3'' *2012 - ''Nero Wolfe'' (producer) *2013 - ''Le Iene con Botte da Orbi'' *2015 - '' Pietro Mennea - La freccia del sud'' (fiction)

Theatre

*2004 - ''

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'' *2006 - '' Il Sogno del Principe di Salina, l'Ultimo Gattopardo''

References

External links

Luca Barbareschi official site
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