Géza Röhrig

The native form of this personal name is Röhrig Géza. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

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,^[1] 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.

Géza Röhrig
Born	Budapest, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian
Alma mater	Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest
Occupations	Actor poet

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.^[2] 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.^[3] He studied filmmaking under István Szabó.^[3][4]

He published two collections of poems on the theme of the Shoah, Hamvasztókönyv (literally "Book of Incineration", 1995) and Fogság ("Captivity", 1997).^[5] He graduated from the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest with a degree in filmmaking.^[6] Since 2000, he has lived in the Bronx borough of New York City,^[7] where he received a degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary and has been a kindergarten teacher at Hannah Senesh Community Day School in Brooklyn.^[8] He is married, and has four children.^[2] He has published many collections of poetry.^[9]

Work

Prose

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

Poetry

• Hamvasztókönyv (in Hungarian). Budapest: Múlt és Jövö. 1995. ISBN 963-85295-2-0.
• Fogság (in Hungarian). Budapest: Széphalom Könyvműhely. 1997. ISBN 963-9028-10-X.
• Éj (in Hungarian). Budapest: Széphalom Könyvműhely. 1999. ISBN 963-9028-56-8.
• Sziget (in Hungarian). Budapest: Széphalom Könyvműhely. 2000. ISBN 963-9028-75-4.
• Törvény : [versek] (in Hungarian). Budapest: Múlt és Jövő. 2006. ISBN 963-9512-20-6.^[9]
• Honvágy (in Hungarian). Budapest: Múlt és Jövő. 2010. ISBN 978-963-9512-57-3.
• az ember aki a cipőjében hordta a gyökereit (in Hungarian). Budapest: Magvető. 2016. ISBN 978-963-14-3372-2.
• angyalvakond (in Hungarian). Budapest: Menhely Alapítvány. 2018. ISBN 9786158099912.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Son of Saul	Saul
2018	To Dust	Shmuel	[10]
	The Chaperone	Joseph	[11]
2019	Muse	Luca
	Bad Art	Gene
2020	Resistance	Georges Loinger	[12]
	Undergods	Z
2023	Five and a Half Love Stories in a Vilnius Apartment	Philip
TBA	The Way of the Wind	Jesus Christ	Post-production
	Fog of War	Viktor
	Desert Warrior	TBA

Television

• 1989: Közjáték, episode Mrożek: Levélkék (director)^[13]
• 1989: Eszmélet by József Madaras, episodes 1 and 2: Attila József^[14][15]
• 1990: Armelle by Jacek Lenczowski: Piotr