
Luca Barbareschi
Actor · b. 1956 · Montevideo, Uruguay
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.
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Cannibal Holocaust
1980 · 1.9K votes
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The International
2009 · 1.5K votes
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1999 · 84 votes
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Things Change
1988 · 80 votes
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1987 · 20 votes
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Something Good
2013 · 7 votes
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2023 · 12 votes
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1990 · 27 votes
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Hanna K.
1983 · 33 votes
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Il Trasformista
2002 · 2 votes
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Movie10.0ComedyRomantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome.
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Bye Bye Baby
1988 · 8 votes
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1985 · 1 votes
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2011 · 1 votes
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Series11
TV7.9RealityTalk ShowCiao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.
Ciao Darwin
1998 · 15 votes
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2020 · 44 votes
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- TV10.0Comedy
Zwei Männer und die Frauen
1996 · 1 votes
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Jesus
1999 · 6 votes
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2019 · 1 votes
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1995 · 1 votes
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2000 · 2 votes
TV7.5Nebbie e delitti is an Italian television series.
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Rivoglio i miei figli
2004 · 1 votes
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La bella Otero
1984 · 1 votes