Géza Röhrig

Acting

Géza Röhrig

Born 1967-05-11 · Budapest, Hungarian People's Republic [now Hungary]

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.

Acting credits

Desert Warrior poster
6.1

In 7th-century Arabia, Princess Hind becomes a warrior to defy the ruthless Emperor Kisra. Forged into a warrior and aided by legendary bandit Hanzala, Hind unites warring tribes for a last stand—the historic Battle of Dhi Qar—that will change history.

Desert Warrior

2026

Marty Supreme poster
7.4

Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

Marty Supreme

2025

Resistance poster
7.0

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

Resistance

2020

Son of Saul poster
7.1

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.

Son of Saul

2015

Fog of War poster
6.0

With WWII raging around them, an injured pilot and his fiancée find themselves stranded on a remote estate. As the Allies plan the D-Day Invasion, the couple become aware of a Nazi spy hiding amongst them with stolen documents bound for Germany. Unsure of who to trust, and facing danger around every corner, they must uncover the spy’s identity as the outcome of the war hangs in the balance.

Fog of War

2025

Undergods poster
5.7

An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune.

Undergods

2021

The Chaperone poster
6.2

In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dancer on her fame-seeking journey to New York City.

The Chaperone

2019

No artwork available
NR

A father and daughter gets stranded in the Alps after an avalanche uncovers something primeval from the glacial ice. With no hope of rescue, the pair must fight to survive against a merciless predator that blends in with the snow.

Yeti

The Sunrise File poster
NR

The Sunrise File is a geopolitical thriller in which a Mossad agent seeks to determine the fate of former Nazi executioners. The film takes us on a breathtaking tale of espionage from the end of the Second World War to the trial of Klaus Barbie, between Paris, Berlin, La Paz and Tel Aviv.

The Sunrise File

2026

To Dust poster
5.5

Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.

To Dust

2019

The Way of the Wind poster
NR

A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.

The Way of the Wind

Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania poster
5.0

A series of vignettes situated in an apartment in Vilnius conceive of the complexities of desire and love as seen through the fleeting experiences of five Airbnb guests, each in differing states of romantic entanglement and crisis.

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

2023

Muse poster
NR

Luca is the pre-eminent artist of his generation and at the peak of his career, lauded, feted and collected by all. He is the ultimate showman however, his fortune and fame have left him agoraphobic and crippled by depression. He hasn't left his house in five years, he's a virtual recluse who battles daily with his demon. When a chance encounter brings Luca back from the edge, the question is, can he stay there.

Muse

2019

Trivial Of My Life poster
NR

Early 1900s, Argentina. Dick Mahler sneaks onto a ship he believes is bound for India—but ends up in St. Petersburg, Russia, with nothing and no way back. He drifts until a traveling circus takes him in, a place where everything has a role, and staying means learning how to fit into one.

Trivial Of My Life

Zero at the Bone poster
NR

A fallen angel lands in the desert, where he encounters a nomad whose hidden past will be revealed to him by the many mirages they encounter along the way.

Zero at the Bone

2023

No artwork available
NR

Twenty well-known Hungarian artists - 10 right-wing (said to be) and 10 left-liberal (said to be) writers, directors, actors, musicians talk about the regime change and what has happened to us here in the last 30 years.

A Country Divided

2018

Bad Art poster
NR

A group of buyers visit an artist's studio to purchase a painting that was praised in a famous magazine.

Bad Art

2019