Luca Barbareschi

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.8272

Gender

Male

Birthday

28-Jul-1956

Age

(70 years old)

Place of Birth

Montevideo, Uruguay

Also Known As
  • Лука Барбарески
  • Luca Giorgio Barbareschi
  • Frankie Speranza

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.


Credits

Ardena Ardena (1997) Character: N/A
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 lake in Northern Italy. There he finds, like every year, his uncles, aunts, cousins, a fascinating mother, a father always away on business trips, a grandfather who does not want to grow old and a granny who talks to trees. During this summer he makes his first discoveries about life and love and abandons the illusions and the magic of childhood.
Intolerance Intolerance (1996) Character: Soldier (segment "Prima linea")
A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.
On n'a qu'une vie On n'a qu'une vie (2000) Character: Nicolas
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.
Summertime Summertime (1983) Character: Marco
Marco, an Italian young man in New York, hopes to find Valerie, a girl he once had a fling with.
Nella giungla: The Making of Cannibal Holocaust Nella giungla: The Making of Cannibal Holocaust (2003) Character: Himself
An Italian documentary that gives an inside look at the making of Ruggero Deodato's controversial horror film "Cannibal Holocaust".
Cronaca Nera: La Clinica dei Vip Cronaca Nera: La Clinica dei Vip (1998) Character: Walter Cherubini
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 famous private clinic in Parma, who claims to be held prisoner. The next day, the opera singer Marinelli, also a guest at the facility, was found dead. The reporter, having infiltrated the clinic and aided in the investigation by a nurse, will be able to unravel the mystery.
Cronaca Nera: Delitti al Torraccio Cronaca Nera: Delitti al Torraccio (1998) Character: Walter Cherubini
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 man is found dead, and not far away, the bodies of a young couple are also discovered. In the following days, another murder occurs in the same wooded area of “Torraccio.” The journalist soon realizes that he is dealing with a dangerous serial killer, and that his father, in poor health, has seen the killer's face, thus putting himself in serious danger
Trenta Righe per un Delitto: La Lista dei Partenti Trenta Righe per un Delitto: La Lista dei Partenti (1998) Character: Walter Cherubini
Walter Cherubini, reporter for the newspaper La Provincia di Parma, is transferred to crime news due to a dispute with the editor. Despite his inexperience in the field, he will soon find himself dealing with the case of an honorable man's suicide. The man, with the help of Candy, a journalist from a local broadcaster, discovers that the solution to the mystery lies behind a recent trip made by the politician and other fellow citizens to Cuba.
Trenta Righe per un Delitto: La Donna Giusta Trenta Righe per un Delitto: La Donna Giusta (1998) Character: Walter Cherubini
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 asks the reporter for help. The widow's charm triggers the jealousy of her colleague Federica, in love with Walter, and puts the latter's lucidity to the test.
Trenta Righe per un Delitto: La Bambola Sull'Asfalto Trenta Righe per un Delitto: La Bambola Sull'Asfalto (1998) Character: Walter Cherubini
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 the matter, before dying by suicide. Walter, not believing in this hypothesis, throws himself headlong into the search for the truth. Meanwhile, the return of the charming Candy provokes the jealousy of Federica who decides to resign from the newspaper and leave for Milan.
Trenta Righe per un Delitto: Il Serial Killer dei Metronotte Trenta Righe per un Delitto: Il Serial Killer dei Metronotte (1998) Character: Walter Cherubini
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 tries to take advantage of it and within a short time the murders of other security guards follow one another. Walter, at odds with the editorial line, decides to investigate.
Buio nella Valle Buio nella Valle (1984) Character: Brigadiere Sanna
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 that will have to wait more than ten years to reach a solution.
Cronaca Nera: Il Portiere Distratto Cronaca Nera: Il Portiere Distratto (1998) Character: Walter Cherubini
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 reasons, thinks that the husband is the culprit.
DolceRoma DolceRoma (2019) Character: Oscar Martello
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, a story about the Camorra. Having become discouraged by his struggling career, he is waiting for the chance of a lifetime. And finally, it arrives - a major film producer decides to adapt his novel and make it into a movie.
Ti presento un'amica Ti presento un'amica (1987) Character: Claudio
Romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome.
Bye Bye Baby Bye Bye Baby (1988) Character: Paolo
Love triangles often provoke the most unpredictable behavior. Will anybody end up happily in love at the end of this amorous debacle? One outrageous scene after another leads to a series of romantic escapades that will leave viewers bewitched, bewildered, and thoroughly entertained.
Hanna K. Hanna K. (1983) Character: Young Lawyer
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 survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. However, she bears witness to some of its sovereign costs when she meets Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian man facing serious criminal charges who wants the same thing as his supposed enemies: to reclaim his family home.
Something Good Something Good (2013) Character: Matteo
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 of the world, in Italy, Matteo works on behalf of Feng, a multinational based in Hong Kong that traffics counterfeit food. To avoid arrest, Matteo escapes from Italy, saving a precious shipment of Feng's food, and this begins his unscrupulous climb towards success. At a time when he is enjoying the greatest prestige within Feng, Matteo meets Xiwen by chance, who has opened a restaurant in memory of his son and is fighting for the authenticity of food. Neither of them imagines that from that moment their lives will be turned upside down.
Cannibal Holocaust Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Character: Mark Tomaso
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 making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Da Corleone a Brooklyn Da Corleone a Brooklyn (1979) Character: New York Cop
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 City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his prisoner face a series of traps set up by the Mafia.
Il cielo è sempre più blu Il cielo è sempre più blu (1996) Character: N/A
Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love.
Il lungo inverno Il lungo inverno (1985) Character: N/A
A movie from Ivo Barnabò Micheli.
The Penitent: A Rational Man The Penitent: A Rational Man (2023) Character: Charles
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 violent and unstable, resulting in the deaths of multiple people following a tragic breakdown of his mental complications. The patient then claims that Charles will not testify in court or to the police because the patient is openly part of the LGBT community. Further, the patient claims that Charles has recently gone through a religious conversion in his own personal identity which has resulted in a fully prejudiced reassessment of the gay community as a whole. Charles claims that the basis of these accusations are false and due to a misunderstanding. The resulting recriminations put Charles's entire career at risk and threaten to end his practice permanently.
Romance Romance (1986) Character: Andrea
A father and son try to reconcile spending a few days together and confronting each other also through their own marital experiences.
In nome del popolo sovrano In nome del popolo sovrano (1990) Character: Giovanni Livraghi
1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.
Inferno in diretta Inferno in diretta (1985) Character: Bud
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 massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.
Via Montenapoleone Via Montenapoleone (1987) Character: Guido
Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diverge.
La Bionda La Bionda (1993) Character: Annibali
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 waiting for him at his door. She asks him for help, as she can't remember anything prior to the incident.
The International The International (2009) Character: Umberto Calvin
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, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk.
Jesus Jesus (1999) Character: Herodes Antipas
Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.
Noi credevamo Noi credevamo (2010) Character: Antonio Gallenga
1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following decades.
Sogno di una notte d'estate Sogno di una notte d'estate (1983) Character: Lysander
Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
The Palace The Palace (2023) Character: Bongo
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.
Le Fils du Français Le Fils du Français (1999) Character: Aureliano
A young boy and his two grandmothers flee from headhunters and other villainous types in the Brazilian rain forest in this wacky family adventure. Benjamin, whose mom is dead and whose dad is off in the jungle searching for gold, is more cool-headed than his two grandmothers, both of whom hate one another. Upper class teacher bristles at the coarse behavior of working class Suzanne, who shoplifts and cheats at cards. Soon bad guys threaten them, and the chase begins.
Teresa Teresa (1987) Character: Gino
Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.
Things Change Things Change (1988) Character: Italian man on Lake Tahoe plank (uncredited)
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 he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status. Only friendship will see them through this dangerous adventure alive!
J'accuse J'accuse (2019) Character: Philippe Monnier
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
La tenda nera La tenda nera (1996) Character: Fabio Leonardi
The new captain of the Carabinieri, Fabio Leopardi, arrives in a quiet provincial town, called to investigate the possible existence of a satanic sect which has led to the death of three people: the parish priest of the town, who died in an alleged accident, the captain of the carabinieri, apparently dead by suicide, who was investigating the death of the priest, and a young student, found dead in a ditch, who behind her 'good girl' appearance hid the use of narcotic substances and the practice of rituals satanic. Despite a series of misdirections, Leopardi will be able to shed light on the case.
Il Trasformista Il Trasformista (2002) Character: Augusto Viganò
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 Augusto Vigano, the co-owner of a pub and a dedicated environmentalist, blocks, in the company of a group of friends, the train on which minister Antonelli is traveling. The politician, agrees to listen to the protesters'complaints and , filmed by television cameras, follows Vigano all the way to the dump. It is on this occasion that Vigano is noticed by a politician who sees at once the interest he can derive in having him elected. Augusto, who thinks that being elected to parliament is the best way to protect the environment more effectively, accepts his offer, without realizing that the cynical politician intends to manipulate him.
Chi mi aiuta? Chi mi aiuta? (1984) Character: Carlo
Paolo and Carlo are good friends. The first introverted, disillusioned and intellectual, while the other is happy if shallow. Despite their differences they share accommodation. Paolo runs an “alternative” kind of library; Carlo plays the violin in a little band. Their lives go on peacefully, when suddenly Paolo falls in love with one of his a customers - Lili, an amateur actress - whom he decides to take home. Carlo doesn’t react well to the fact he’s got to share with a third person, so he comes up with a weird idea - he flirts with the new girl and manages to seduce her. Paolo thinks his best friend is now guilty of a real betrayal, while Lili is undecided: she’s attracted by both the culture of Paolo and the physical attraction of Carlo. This love triangle ends when Paolo tries to commit suicide, Carlo feels guilty and Lili leaves them both, returning to her previous life and still hoping to find her one true love.
Impiegati Impiegati (1985) Character: Enrico
Friendship and competition among a group of bank clerks in 1980s Italy.



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