Trujillo: El poder del jefe I

Not just a movie, but history itself

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1991

1h 15m

Documentary

Overview

The first part of the trilogy shows the political, economic, and social conditions that made Trujillo's dictatorship in the Dominican Republic possible. It offers a stirring vision of more than twenty years of Dominican history, from 1916 to 1937, using for such aim contemporary films, pictures, documents, and audio recordings of speeches.

Directed by René Fortunato