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 t…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Cannibal Holocaust (1980) — Mark Tomaso
2. An Officer and a Spy (2019) — Philippe Monnier
3. The International (2009) — Umberto Calvini
4. The Palace (2023) — Bongo
5. Jesus (1999) — Herodes Antipas
6. Things Change (1988) — Italian man on Lake Tahoe plank (uncredited)
7. Cut and Run (1985) — Bud
8. DolceRoma (2019) — Oscar Martello
9. We Believed (2010) — Antonio Gallenga
10. Cursed Films (2020) — Self
11. Hanna K. (1983) — Young Lawyer
12. Pietro Mennea - La freccia del sud (2015)
13. In nome del popolo sovrano (1990) — Giovanni Livraghi
14. Teresa (1987) — Gino
15. Impiegati (1985) — Enrico
16. Via Montenapoleone (1987) — Guido
17. From Corleone to Brooklyn (1979) — New York Cop
18. Bits & Pieces (1996)
19. Ciao Darwin (1998) — Capitano Settentrionali
20. The Penitent: A Rational Man (2023) — Charles
21. The Frenchman's Son (1999) — Aureliano
22. The Accursed Kings (2005) — Spinello Tolomei
23. Bye Bye Baby (1988) — Paolo
24. Something Good (2013) — Matteo
25. Dream of a Summer Night (1983) — Lysander
26. Fog and Crimes (2005) — Commissario Franco Soneri
27. Jesus (1999) — Herod
28. The Delegation (1993) — Lorenzo
29. Pietro Mennea - La freccia del Sud (2015) — Carlo Vittori
30. You Only Live Once (2000) — Nicolas
31. Romance (1986) — Andrea
32. Il Trasformista (2002) — Augusto Viganò
33. La voglia matta di vivere (2022) — Self
34. Summertime (1983) — Marco
35. Wanderjahre (2000) — Luigi
36. The Blonde (1993) — Annibali
37. Obiettivo indiscreto (1992) — David Lamberti
38. Intolerance (1996) — Soldier (segment "Prima linea")
39. Ardena (1997)
40. La tenda nera (1996) — Fabio Leonardi

Directed

1. The Penitent: A Rational Man (2023) — Director
2. Something Good (2013) — Director
3. Il Trasformista (2002) — Director
4. Ardena (1997) — Director
5. Paradiso in vendita (2025) — Director