Géza Röhrig

Born: 1967-05-11

Géza Röhrig was born on May 11, 1967, in Budapest, Hungary. 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 a Hasidic Jew in Brooklyn. 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. He has lived in the Bronx borough of New York City since 2000 where he has been a kindergarten teacher and has published many collections of poetry.


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Son of Saul

as Saul Ausländer
Released: 2015-06-11

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds...

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Resistance

as Georges Loinger
Released: 2020-03-27

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French...

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Undergods

as Z
Released: 2020-11-21

An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy...

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The Way of the Wind

as Jesus
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A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.

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To Dust

as Shmuel
Released: 2019-02-08

Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife,...

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The Chaperone

as Joseph
Released: 2019-03-29

In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young...

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Bad Art

as Gene
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A group of buyers visit an artist's studio to purchase a painting that was praised in a famous...

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Muse

as Luca
Released: 2019-10-18

Luca is the pre-eminent artist of his generation and at the peak of his career, lauded, feted...

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Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania

as Philip
Released: 2023-11-18

A series of vignettes situated in an apartment in Vilnius conceive of the complexities of desire...

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