Luca Barbareschi

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Luca Barbareschi (January 2008)

Luca Giorgio Barbareschi (born July 28, 1956 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is an Italian film and stage actor , as well as film producer , screenwriter and film director . From 2008 to 2013, Barbareschi was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies .

Life

Barbareschi, who grew up in Italy, began his career in the mid-1970s as an assistant director at a theater in Verona , under the theater director Virginio Puecher . With Puecher he then went to the United States , where he staged Jacques Offenbach's operetta Hoffmann's Tales in Chicago ( Illinois ) . Afterwards, Barbareschi lived for some time in the USA and studied acting in New York City with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler, among others . In 1979 he made his debut in Umberto Lenzi's thriller Da Corleone a Brooklyn .

His second film was to be his most controversial work to date. In Cannibal Holocaust , a cannibal film produced in 1980, director Ruggero Deodato wanted to offer the viewer so much realism that he had the actors, including Barbareschi, sign a contract stipulating that they would withdraw from the public for a year. Many assumed that the actors in the very realistic work were actually killed, so Deodato was arrested and faced with murder charges. The judge could only be convinced of the integrity of the actors when the contract was terminated and Barbareschi and his colleagues appeared in front of the audience on a television show.

Barbareschi was hardly known internationally beyond the Italian borders. One of his most famous films in recent years was the 1999 film adaptation of the Bible, The Bible - Jesus in which Barbareschi embodied Herodes Antipas .

In February 1990 he founded the production company Casanova Entertainment , which had specialized in the production of feature films as well as plays. Today she produces elaborate multi-part series for Italian television.

Since January 2010, Barbareschi has hosted the talk show Barbareschi Sciock for the station La7 .

Luca Barbareschi has also made a name for himself as a social advocate in Italy. In April 2007 he founded the Fondazione Luca Barbareschi , which has set itself the task of supporting children who have been sexually abused.

Barbareschi in 2008 for the party Popolo della Libertà in the Chamber of Deputies elected in Italy and joined there on 30 July 2010, the newly founded group Future and Freedom , but he left again on February 21 2011th He did not run for the 2013 parliamentary elections .

He has three daughters with his first wife, Patrizia Fachini. His second marriage was to Lucrezia Lante della Rovere , an Italian actress.

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbareschi's homepage at barbareschiparlamento.com, accessed on August 2, 2010.
  2. ↑ camera.it

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Barbareschi, Luca
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barbareschi, Luca Giorgio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actor, filmmaker and politician, member of the Camera
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay