Luca Barbareschi

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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...

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The InternationalMovie • 2009Cannibal HolocaustMovie • 1980JesusMovie • 1999An Officer and a SpyMovie • 2019Cut and RunMovie • 1985The PalaceMovie • 2023Modalità aereoMovie • 2019Things ChangeMovie • 1988Mia Martini - I Am MiaMovie • 2019Notes from a Women SalesmanMovie • 2021The StartupMovie • 2017In nome del popolo sovranoMovie • 1990TeresaMovie • 1987Ero in guerra ma non lo sapevoMovie • 2022If You Love MeMovie • 2019Hanna K.Movie • 1983We BelievedMovie • 2010Ugly Nasty PeopleMovie • 2017On Your TiptoesMovie • 2018Pietro Mennea - La freccia del sudMovie • 2015DolceRomaMovie • 2019La mia banda suona il popMovie • 2020Bla Bla BabyMovie • 2022