Géza Röhrig

Biography

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.

Known For

Son of Saul

Acting

Desert Warrior

as

2025

Fog of War

as

Viktor

2023

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

as

Philip

2015

Son of Saul

as

Saul Ausländer

A Country Divided

as

2019

The Chaperone

as

Joseph

2019

To Dust

as

Shmuel

2020

Resistance

as

Georges Loinger

The Way of the Wind

as

Jesus

2019

Bad Art

as

Gene

2019

Muse

as

Luca

2021

Undergods

as

Z

Production

Crew

Directing