Raul The Terrible

Raul The Terrible is a 2006 Australian documentary film created by David Bradbury. It is a study of Raúl Castells. Bradbury and his team had close access to him for a period of three months and then filmed for a second period when Castells was engaged in a hunger strike.^[1]

Raul The Terrible
Directed by	David Bradbury
Written by	Carlos Alperin
Produced by	Carlos Alperin
Cinematography	David Bradbury
Edited by	Stewart Young
Release date	2006 (2006)
Running time	79 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English

^[2] It was Ettinger-Epstein debut film and stemmed from a chance meeting at the Matthew Talbot refuge in Woolloomooloo after which she saw his photographs.^[3]

Reception

Doug Anderson of the Sydney Morning Herald wrote "Not terribly well compiled but worthy as all get-out"^[4] Newcastle Herald's Kylie Cooper says in her capsule review "this warts-and-all portrait of a man driven to change his world, provides an insight into the politics of poverty in twenty-first century Argentina."^[5] Also with a capsule review the Age's Paul Kalina said "Veteran Australia filmmaker David Bradbury casts a wryly humorous eye on Argentine dissident Raul Castells in this warts-and-all portrait of a flawed revolutionary and once affluent nation in economic ruins."^[6]

Awards

• 2006 Australian Film Institute Awards
  • Best Direction in a Documentary - David Bradbury - won^[7]
  • Best Editing in a Non-Feature Film - Stewart Young - won^[7]
  • Best Documentary - Carlos Alperin - nominated