Actor, producer and director Luca Barbareschi is at the Venice Film Festival this year as one the main representatives of Roman Polanski’s new film The Palace. The satire, poking fun at the u…
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The director, who turned 90 in August, has not travelled to Italy, where it remains unclear whether he would be subject to Italy’s extradition treaty with the U.S., while a number of the film’s international stars including John Cleese are staying away due to the Hollywood actors’ strike. Aside from playing a porn star called Bongo in the film, the larger-than-life figure of Barbareschi was a driving force behind gettingoff the ground, having previously aproduced Polanski’s last film, the award-winning Dreyfus Affair dramaIn the face of the controversies swirling around the director, he lead produced under the banner of his Rome-based Èliseo Entertainment, securing the support of Italy’s Rai Cinema as a lead partner as well as Jean-Louis Porchet at CAB Productions, Wojciech...
Barbareschi and Polanski have been friends for nearly 50 years, and he is fiercely loyal to the director.“I cannot speak for Roman but the 70s were not today. It was free sex for all. I could have a jail sentence for what I did in New York between 1974 and 1980 with the logic of today’s political correctness.”
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