Géza Röhrig

Géza Röhrig
Born
NationalityHungarian
Alma materAcademy of Drama and Film in Budapest
Occupations

Géza Röhrig (Hungarian: Röhrig Géza, pronounced [ˈrøːriɡ ˈɡeːzɒ]; May 11, 1967) is a Hungarian actor and poet. He is best known for his role in the 2015 film Son of Saul, which won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Life and career

Géza Röhrig was born in Budapest, Hungary. His mother left the family after he was born, and his father died when he was four, so Röhrig spent his childhood in foster care. From the age of 12 he was raised by a Jewish family. In the 1980s, he was the frontman of an underground music band called Huckleberry (also known as HuckRebelly), whose concerts were almost always interrupted by the communist authorities. At university he studied Hungarian and Polish, and after a visit to Auschwitz during a study tour in Poland, he decided to become an Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn, United States. He portrayed poet Attila József in a film by József Madaras. He studied filmmaking under István Szabó.

He published two collections of poems on the theme of the Shoah, Hamvasztókönyv (literally "Book of Incineration", 1995) and Fogság ("Captivity", 1997). He graduated from the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest with a degree in filmmaking. Since 2000, he has lived in the Bronx borough of New York City, where he received a degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary and has been a kindergarten teacher at Hannah Senesh Community Day School in Brooklyn. He is married, and has four children. He has published many collections of poetry.

Work

Prose

  • A Rebbe tollatépett papagája: képzelt haszid történetek (in Hungarian). Budapest: Múlt és Jövő. 1999. ISBN 963-9171-22-0.

Poetry

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2015 Son of Saul Saul
2018 To Dust Shmuel
The Chaperone Joseph
2019 Muse Luca
Bad Art Gene
2020 Resistance Georges Loinger
Undergods Z
TBA The Way of the Wind Jesus Christ Post-production
Fog of War Viktor
Desert Warrior TBA

Television


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