Géza Röhrig
Birthday: 1967-05-11
Place of Birth: 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.
Movies
Desert Warrior
An honorable and mysterious rogue, known as Hanzala, makes himself an enemy of the Emperor Kisra aft...
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Fog of War
With WWII raging around them, an injured pilot and his fiancée find themselves stranded on a remote ...
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Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania
A series of vignettes situated in an apartment in Vilnius conceive of the complexities of desire and...
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Son of Saul
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral...
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A Country Divided
Twenty well-known Hungarian artists - 10 right-wing (said to be) and 10 left-liberal (said to be) wr...
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The Chaperone
In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dance...
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To Dust
Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, strug...
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Resistance
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resist...
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Bad Art
A group of buyers visit an artist's studio to purchase a painting that was praised in a famous magaz...
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Muse
Luca is the pre-eminent artist of his generation and at the peak of his career, lauded, feted and co...
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Undergods
An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales...
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Marty Supreme
In 1950s New York, Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to Hell and back in ...
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