This article will show how the trilogy of films about dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina, El Poder del Jefe (The Power of the Boss), by Dominican filmmaker René Fortunato, is carefully devised and constructed to dismantle the mythology about Trujillo´s regime, accumulated in the Dominican Republic for so many years. To understand why Fortunato has made these films the way he has, it is important to see them against the backdrop of the exaggerated and mythologizing rhetoric that is still common, thirty-five years after Trujillo's death.
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