---
name: "Rafael Sánchez Ventura"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rafael-sanchez-ventura"
fi1m_id: "rafael-sanchez-ventura"
imdb_id: "nm0844798"
tmdb_id: 817
wikidata_id: "Q6098004"
roles: ["Assistant director"]
born: "24 October 1897"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-25T01:56:26.560784+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Rafael Sánchez Ventura

## Identity

Rafael Sánchez Ventura

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rafael-sanchez-ventura
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rafael-sanchez-ventura
- **IMDb ID:** nm0844798
- **TMDB ID:** 817
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6098004
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6098004, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0844798/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/817

Assistant director. Born 24 October 1897 in Zaragoza, Spain.

## Details

- **Work:** Assistant director
- **Born:** 24 October 1897, Zaragoza, Spain
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6098004, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0844798/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/817

## Biography

Rafael Sánchez Ventura was a Spanish writer, academic and diplomat. Born in Zaragoza in 1897, he studied philosophy and letters at the University of Zaragoza and later earned a doctorate. He taught at the university and worked as a museographer and researcher, with particular interest in Aragonese Romanesque art.

He was a friend of Luis Buñuel from their time at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid and collaborated with him on the 1933 short film *Land Without Bread* (*Las Hurdes: Tierra sin pan*). Sánchez Ventura contributed to the screenplay and served as assistant director. This was his only credited work in cinema.

He held diplomatic posts during the Spanish Republic, including as secretary to the Spanish embassy in Paris, and later lived in exile in Mexico before returning to Spain in 1966. He died in Lisbon in 1980.

*Sources: es.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Land Without Bread* (1933), Fi1m 66, Assistant Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/land-without-bread.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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- *Land Without Bread* (1933), Assistant Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/land-without-bread.md)

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