Géza Röhrig Explained

Birth Place:Budapest, Hungary
Nationality:Hungarian
Alma Mater:Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest

Géza Röhrig (Hungarian: Röhrig Géza, in Hungarian pronounced as /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,[1] [2] 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.[3] 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.[4] He studied filmmaking under István Szabó.[4] [5]

He published two collections of poems on the theme of the Shoah, Hungarian: Hamvasztókönyv (literally "Book of Incineration", 1995) and Hungarian: Fogság ("Captivity", 1997).[6] He graduated from the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest with a degree in filmmaking.[7] Since 2000, he has lived in the Bronx borough of New York City,[8] where he received a degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary and has been a kindergarten teacher at Hannah Senesh Community Day School in Brooklyn.[9] He is married, and has four children.[3] He has published many collections of poetry.[10]

Work

Prose

Poetry

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2015Son of SaulSaul
2018To Dust Shmuel[11]
The ChaperoneJoseph[12]
2019MuseLuca
Bad ArtGene
2020ResistanceGeorges Loinger[13]
UndergodsZ
TBAThe Way of the WindJesus ChristPost-production
Fog of WarViktor
Desert WarriorTBA

Television

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Culture - Saul's inferno: Searing Holocaust drama stuns Cannes festival. France 24. May 15, 2015 .
  2. Web site: Géza Röhrig. IMDb.
  3. Web site: Híres örökbefogadottak: Röhrig Géza . 2016-02-29 . 2016-02-26. orokbe.hu.
  4. Web site: Röhrig Géza - Úgy éreztem, udvari bolonddá kezdek válni . 1991-04-12 . 2015-05-16 . . jbsz.hu .
  5. Web site: Röhrig Géza, a Saul fia sztárja: halottmosdatással foglalkozik New Yorkban . Brugós Bernadette . 2016-02-29 . 2015-06-10. femcafe.hu.
  6. Web site: Magyar Narancs - Film - "Csak ezt az egy regényt kell megírnom" (Röhrig Géza költő). magyarnarancs.hu. May 25, 2015 .
  7. Web site: Kultúra: Élesztő és irodalom - NOL.hu. Szemere Katalin. February 13, 2013. NOL.hu.
  8. Antony Lane, "Deep and Dark," The New Yorker, December 21, 2015: 227
  9. Web site: The Kindergarten Teacher Who Won Cannes. May 29, 2015. Tablet. Davidzon. Vladislav.
  10. Web site: Múlt és Jövő Kiadó - Törvény - All Categories - Publishing House. multesjovo.hu. May 23, 2015. March 4, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304142214/http://www.multesjovo.hu/en/konyvkiado/tallozo/torveny.html. dead.
  11. Web site: To Dust 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Tribeca. 2018-05-07.
  12. Web site: Haley Lu Richardson Joins Elizabeth McGovern's PBS Movie 'The Chaperone'. Variety. Dave. McNary. August 1, 2017. July 25, 2018.
  13. Web site: Ed Harris, Edgar Ramirez, Cléménce Poesy, More Join Jesse Eisenberg In Marcel Marceau WWII Story 'Resistance' — AFM. deadline.com. October 30, 2018 . October 30, 2018.
  14. Web site: filmhu - naptár - kategória - klub - FMS Filmfesztivál. magyar.film.hu.
  15. Web site: Géza Röhring. IMDb.
  16. Web site: Eszmélet. PORT.hu. November 20, 1989 .

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