Florián Rey

Florián Rey

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Directing

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1894-01-23

  • Day of Death

    1962-04-11 (68 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    La Almunia de Doña Godina, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain

Biography

Florián Rey, real name Antonio Martínez del Castillo (La Almunia de Doña Godina, Zaragoza, January 25, 1894-Benidorm, April 11, 1962), was a Spanish film director, one of the greatest representatives of silent films and the Spanish film industry of the Second Republic.

His film La aldea maldita (1930) is considered the masterpiece of Spanish cinema of the silent stage and some of his popular works of the Republican stage, such as Nobleza baturra (1935) or Morena Clara (1936), starring Imperio Argentina, were very successful, which led him to compete even with the American film industry and opened the possibility of developing a genuinely Spanish film industry, although it was aborted with the outbreak of the Civil War.

Acting

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