Géza Röhrig
Known For
Acting
Born
1967-05-11 in Budapest, Hungarian People's Republic [now Hungary]
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.
Most Known For
Marty Supreme
as Béla Kletzki
The Chaperone
as Joseph
Son of Saul
as Saul Ausländer
Resistance
as Georges Loinger
Fog of War
as Viktor
The Way of the Wind
as Jesus
Muse
as Luca
Undergods
as Z
Desert Warrior
To Dust
as Shmuel
Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania
as Philip
Bad Art
as Gene
