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 act...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Paradiso in vendita
2025
Producer, Director
New film by Luca Barbareschi.

La luce nella masseria
2024
Producer

The Palace
2023
as 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.

The Palace
2023
Producer
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.

The Penitent - A Rational Man
2023
as 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 v...

The Penitent - A Rational Man
2023
Director, Producer
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 v...

Bla Bla Baby
2022
Producer
After a freak accident, a nursery school janitor finds out he can now understand babyspeak.

La voglia matta di vivere
2022
as Self

Ero in guerra ma non lo sapevo
2022
Producer
The story of Pierluigi Torregiani, a Milanese jeweler who in 1979 was killed in revenge by the Armed Proletarians for Communism after killing one of t...

Notes from a Women Salesman
2021
Producer
Set in 1978 Milan, Bravo lives his life among luxury clubs and illegal gambling dens in the company of his friend Daytona. Bravo defines himself as an...

Chiara Lubich - L'Amore vince tutto
2021
Producer

La mia banda suona il pop
2020
Producer
The Russian magnate Ivanov dreams about having The Popcorn, his favorite Italian musical band from the 80s in Saint Petersburg.

Se mi vuoi bene
2019
Producer
After a suicide attempt, depressed lawyer Diego decides to take up the mantle of good Samaritan by helping his loved ones fix the problems in their li...

An Officer and a Spy
2019
as 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.

An Officer and a Spy
2019
Co-Producer
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.

Rising Heartbeats
2019
Executive Producer

DolceRoma
2019
as 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,...

DolceRoma
2019
Producer
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,...

Modalità aereo
2019
Producer
Diego is a successful entrepreneur. Rich and not caring for the good of others, no scruples to belittle the next. His attitude turns against him when ...

Mia Martini - I Am Mia
2019
Production Manager
The movie is a biopic about Mia Martini, an italian singer who died in 1995.

In punta di piedi
2018
Producer

Rocco Chinnici: May Your Kiss Lie Lightly On My Head
2018
Producer
An Italian magistrate leads a crusade against organized crime which ultimately costs him his life in this biopic told through his daughter's eyes.

Ugly Nasty People
2017
Producer
A group of physically disabled lowlifes plans the the perfect heist, but things go south as each reveals an agenda of their own.

The Startup
2017
Producer
Matteo Achilli, a nineteen-year-old from Rome, manages to fulfill every young person’s dream: creating an app and becoming rich. But the world of succ...

Pietro Mennea - La freccia del sud
2015

Pietro Mennea - La freccia del sud
2015
Producer

In love with an angel
2014
Producer
Claudio is a selfish 40 year-old man who enjoys all the pleasures in life. With a limitless bank account at his disposal and a charming appearance, he...

Something Good
2013
as 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 o...

Something Good
2013
Director, Screenplay, Producer
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 o...

Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno
2013
Producer
In post–WWII Italy, inspired industrialist Adriano Olivetti oversees the creation of the first all-Italian electronic calculator while theorizing a re...

Il sogno del maratoneta
2012
Producer
The feat of marathon runner Dorando Pietri, who participated in the London Olympic Games in 1908.

Walter Chiari - Fino all'ultima risata
2012
Producer
Noi c'eravamo
2011
as Self

We Believed
2010
as Antonio Gallenga
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, s...

The International
2009
as 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...

Someone to Run With
2006
Co-Producer
Through the streets of Jerusalem two teenagers' stories will unite to tell the summer adventure of their lives. Tamar is an amazingly talented but ver...

Rivoglio i miei figli
2004
The film tells the struggle of a woman against her ex-husband to have custody of their children. The first attempt to incapacitate ex husband to his w...

In the Jungle: The Making Of Cannibal Holocaust
2003
as Himself
An Italian documentary that gives an inside look at the making of Ruggero Deodato's controversial horror film "Cannibal Holocaust".

Il trasformista
2002
as 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 ...

Il trasformista
2002
Director, Story, Screenplay
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 ...

You Only Live Once
2000
as 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.

The Son of Français
1999
as 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. Ben...

Jesus
1999
as Herodes Antipas
Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.

Cronaca Nera: Delitti al Torraccio
1998
as 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 m...

Cronaca Nera: Il Portiere Distratto
1998
as 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 r...

Cronaca Nera: La Clinica dei Vip
1998
as 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 famo...

Trenta Righe per un Delitto: Il Serial Killer dei Metronotte
1998
as 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 trie...

Trenta Righe per un Delitto: La Bambola Sull'Asfalto
1998
as 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 th...

Trenta Righe per un Delitto: La Donna Giusta
1998
as 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 a...

Trenta Righe per un Delitto: La Lista dei Partenti
1998
as 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 inexper...
Ardena
1997
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...
Ardena
1997
Director, Writer, Producer
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...

Intolerance
1996
as Soldier (segment "Prima linea")
A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.
Connections
1996
as Bernard Moulins

La tenda nera
1996
as 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...

Bits & Pieces
1996
Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy'...

The Blonde
1993
as 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 wait...

The Delegation
1993

The Delegation
1993
Producer

Obiettivo indiscreto
1992
as David Lamberti

Obiettivo indiscreto
1992
Screenplay, Producer

In nome del popolo sovrano
1990
as Giovanni Livraghi
1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.

Bye Bye Baby
1988
as 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 s...

Things Change
1988
as 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 h...

Private Affairs
1987
as Claudio
Romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome.

Teresa
1987
as Gino
Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.

Via Montenapoleone
1987
as 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 diver...

Romance
1986
as Andrea
A father and son try to reconcile spending a few days together and confronting each other also through their own marital experiences.

Romance
1986
Writer
A father and son try to reconcile spending a few days together and confronting each other also through their own marital experiences.

Cut and Run
1985
as 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 massa...
Il lungo inverno
1985
A movie from Ivo Barnabò Micheli.

Impiegati
1985
as Enrico
Friendship and competition among a group of bank clerks in 1980s Italy.

Buio nella Valle
1984
as 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 th...

Chi mi aiuta?
1984
as Carlo
Paolo and Carlo are good friends. The first introverted, disillusioned and intellectual, while the other is happy if shallow. Despite their difference...

La bella Otero
1984
as Max
The story tells the life, the successes, the loves and the decadence of Augustine Caroline Otéro Iglesias, called "La Bella Otéro". The history of a S...

Dream of a Summer Night
1983
as Lysander
Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Hanna K.
1983
as Young Lawyer
Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United Sta...

Summertime
1983
as Marco
Marco, an Italian young man in New York, hopes to find Valerie, a girl he once had a fling with.

Summertime
1983
Screenplay, Producer
Marco, an Italian young man in New York, hopes to find Valerie, a girl he once had a fling with.

Venetian Lies
1981
Second Assistant Director
A lonely 17 year old boy is looking for a couple who is ready to adopt him.

Cannibal Holocaust
1980
as 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...

From Corleone to Brooklyn
1979
as 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 Ci...

Tower Stories
N/A
A writer, realising his last big adventure will very likely be death, takes a sabbatical and leaves his home in New York City’s Little Italy to travel...