Antonio Martínez del Castillo known professionally as Florián Rey was a Spanish director, actor, and screenwriter.

He directed The Cursed Village, widely recognized as a seminal work in silent Spanish cinema, and helped launch the career of famed Argentinian–Spanish actress Imperio Argentina.

[1] While in his teens, Rey began work as a journalist for multiple newspapers in his home province of Zaragoza and nearby Madrid.

[4] As with many of his early films, The Troublemaker was an adaptation of a zarzuela, a Spanish musical theater that was highly popular with the middle and lower classes of the late nineteenth century.

[9] Rey intended for La aldea maldita to be a silent film, but, after completing production, decided to include sound.

[6] While touring Mexico to promote and show Morena Clara, Rey and his wife Imperio Argentina were courted by German officials intending to hire him to direct movies for Hispano-Film Produktion.

[1] Upon their visit to Germany, Rey and Argentina were met by both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels to discuss film projects.