La Raulito

La Raulito
La Raulito
	Marilina Ross as La Raulito
Directed by	Lautaro Murúa
Written by	Juan Carlos Gené; Martha Mercader; José María Paolantonio
Produced by	Sabina Sigler
Starring	Manuel Alexandre; Rafaela Aparicio
Cinematography	Miguel Rodríguez
Edited by	Jorge Valencia
Music by	Roberto Lar
Distributed by	Helicon Producciones
Release date	1975;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish

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

In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 18th position.^[1]

Synopsis

The film tells the story of a real life fan of Boca Juniors football club, María Esther 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.

The film premiered in Argentina on 10 July 1975.

The cast list (in alphabetical order) was:

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. ^[2]

^ "Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933-1999 del Cine Argentino". La mirada cautiva (3). Buenos Aires: Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken: 6–14. 2000. Archived from the original on 21 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022 – via Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 on Google Drive.
^ "Adiós, "Raulito"" (in Spanish). infobae.com. 2008-05-01. Archived from the original on 2009-08-03. Retrieved 2008-05-27.

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