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. Since 1996, the Florián Rey Association created in his hometown has held the La Almunia Film Festival (FESCILA) every May in honor of this Aragonese filmmaker. This festival hosts a short film contest, a screenplay contest, the Villa de La Almunia award to a person related to the film world who is also related to this town and the Florián Rey award to the professional career.
Birthday: January 23, 1894
Death: April 11, 1962
December 08, 1930
August 24, 1950
November 12, 1945
May 02, 1955
September 20, 1946
July 05, 1938
February 19, 1940
February 08, 1954
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April 11, 1936
December 20, 1948
July 16, 1940
November 23, 1942
December 31, 1929
January 01, 1927
January 01, 1928
December 01, 1928
February 14, 1927
October 11, 1935
September 29, 1947
October 31, 1930
January 12, 1927
November 08, 1943
February 28, 1954
January 01, 1934
July 04, 1938
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November 09, 1925
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January 31, 1944
July 31, 1954
May 11, 1944
April 04, 1942
December 16, 1957
October 17, 1941
April 04, 1931
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December 19, 1925
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January 28, 1925
January 28, 1943
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