Rocco Siffredi

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Rocco Siffredi (born Rocco Tano on May 4th, 1964 in Ortona Mare, Italy) is a former pornographic actor, now working as a director and producer of pornographic movies. In his choice of screen name, Rocco was allegedly inspired by a character from the movie Borsalino (1970), "Roch Siffredi", played by Alain Delon. He is also known as 'the Italian Stallion', a reference to his large penis. As of 2005, he has starred in over 1,300 pornographic films. He is credited with helping launch the careers of porn stars Nacho Vidal and Kelly Stafford.

After starting his film career in France, he subsequently starred in films abroad in such varied locales as Budapest, Hungary (which later became the headquarters of his production company, Rocco Siffredi Produzioni), Montreal, Canada, Russia, Brazil, and various Eastern European countries. He became infamous in the pornographic film community for his penchant for anal sex, which built him a cult following over the course of his career.

Rocco's films are widely varied in content and tone. He has appeared in romantic adventures and comedies in the Vivid style, but his later work with John Stagliano's Evil Angel Video is informed by the artistic philosophy and vision of Max Hardcore. In these later films, Rocco spits on women, slaps them, performs irrumatio and watersports (censored in U.S. versions), makes his co-stars gag during deepthroat, and pulls hair to the point of causing tears. On rare occasion, Rocco himself has been the recipient of harsh sexual treatment, portraying the submissive in a BDSM scene in the films Rocco più che mai a Londra 2 and Il Marchese de Sade, the latter in which he appears in drag.

The productions in which Rocco directed as well as starred are considered by many to have broken new grounds in hardcore pornography. Many of his films begin with affectionate, romantic scenes. A point is then reached when the film begins to quickly degenerate from a romance into scenes of marathon, violent anal sex. Shocking climaxes often involve such activities as Rocco focusing the camera on the distended anus of one of his female co-stars, spitting into it, ejaculating into it, and then, in scenes meant to imply breaking the fourth wall, demanding that other co-stars clean the woman's anus with their tongues. Another hallmark of Rocco's films is allowing male fans, picked up by the production crew, to ejaculate onto the faces of his female costars; Rocco took this tradition one step further when directing Never Say Never To Rocco Siffredi, when, filming in a park, Rocco grabbed passing strangers and then requested that his female co-stars perform oral sex on them.

Despite the violent, brutal nature of Rocco's genre of porn, he has been consistently able to find young European actresses willing to star in his pictures. Conversely, there have been rumors of a few actresses feeling pressured to perform anal sex with Siffredi, with the threat of being fired if they do not submit.

Siffredi has sometimes compiled his work into different thematic series, each with numerous installments:

• Rocco's Initiations feature the actor pairing with various young European starlets or attractive girls off the street, most of whom are (or seem) new to pornography.
• Rocco's True Anal Stories features Siffredi and other actors with more established (and invariably beautiful) female performers, all of whom show greater experience with and desire for anal sex.
• Rocco - Animal Trainer is Siffredi's roughest line and the one which has garnered him the most fame in America. The series features female porn stars who are considered to be the most seasoned, jaded, or most open to extreme sexual practices, being pushed to the absolute limit. There is a heavy emphasis on rougher, more sadistic sex, with hard facial slapping, violent hair-pulling and scenes of extremely abusive anal sex. (Rumours persist in many online forums of the availability of 'uncut' versions of this line through assorted vendors within Europe, with the various scenes of abuse all reportedly extended, more detailed, and more brutal). In Animal Trainer 15, Siffredi engages in rough anal sex with American porn actress Jewel De'Nyle, and forces her head into a toilet during the final scene, a technique that seems to help him achieve climax. (The image of Siffredi dunking a gasping female performer's head into and out of a water-filled toilet bowl has become a key graphic in the promotional artwork for many of his European releases).

To the surprise of many of his American fans, Siffredi has recently added a she-male title (She-Males Invade Italy) to his list of credits, and directed a film which includes an authentic sequence depicting an actress engaging in bestiality (Hazardous Duty), an indication to some of Rocco's quest to push any and all limits of what is portrayed in pornography.

Rocco is one of few porn actors to enjoy cross-over appeal and success with respect to other segments of the adult-film industry, as well as in mainstream media. As a primary example, although his acting has been restricted exclusively to heterosexual pornography, his good looks have resulted in his attraction of a large gay audience. As well, in 1999, he appeared in the controversial Catherine Breillat film Romance X. His impressive performance in this role, in which groundbreaking cinematic themes were explored, was followed by a part specifically written for him by the same director in her 2003 film Anatomy of Hell.

Rocco has been married to Hungarian-born, naturalised Italian porn actress and a former Miss Hungary Rosa Caracciolo (born Rozsa Tassi) since 1991. In June 2004, Siffredi declared, for the sake of his children, that he would retire from porn, and instead focus on filming and producing. He was quoted as saying, "My children are growing up, and I can no longer just say 'Dad is going to work to make money for the family.' They want to know more."

External links

• outrate.net review of ANATOMY OF HELL (with pics)
• Filmography Warning: contains explicit ############ content

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