La Raulito

La Raulito (Little Ralph) is a 1975 Argentine film directed by Lautaro Murúa and written by Rocío Dúrcal, Manuel Alexandre and Rafaela Aparicio.

La Raulito
Marilina Ross as La Raulito
Directed byLautaro Murúa
Produced bySabina Sigler
Written byJuan Carlos Gené
Martha Mercader
José María Paolantonio
StarringManuel Alexandre
Rafaela Aparicio
Music byRoberto Lar
CinematographyMiguel Rodríguez
Edited byJorge Valencia
Distributed byHelicon Producciones
Release date
1975
Running time
95 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

Synopsis

The film tells the story of a real life fan of Boca Juniors football club, Mary Esher Duffau, who as a teenage girl adopted the identity of a man in order to survive on the streets of Buenos Aires.

The film shows the teenage Raulito wandering between a reformatory for juvenile offenders, prison and psychiatric hospital. Raulito manages to escape, and finds work at Constitución railway station in Barrio Constitución. Raulito meets up with another street child and they become close friends. They both eventually manage to escape to Mar del Plata.

Release

The film premiered in Argentina on 10 July 1975.

Cast

The cast list (in alphabetical order) was:

Miscellaneous

A follow up film was released in Spain in 1976, La Raulito Released, starring Charo López with a screenplay by Eduardo Barreiros and Eduardo Mignogna. The real life La Raulito, Mary Esher Duffau, died at the age of 74 on 30 April 2008, on the same day Boca Juniors played a Copa Libertadores match against the Brazilian club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, with the players and fans observing a minute's silence in her remembrance. [1]

See also

References
  1. "Adiós, "Raulito"" (in Spanish). infobae.com. 2008-05-01. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
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