Writing
Clara Royer
Born
1981-01-01 (45)
Place of birth
Paris, France
Known for
Writing
Credits
5 titles
Clara Royer was born in 1981 in Paris. Graduated from École normale supérieure (2005), she became a European and French doctor in History, Slavic and Hungarian studies (2008). A full-time teacher at the Sorbonne University in Central European cultures from 2010 to 2014, she now lives in Prague as the head of the CEFRES, a center for scientific cooperation between France and the Visegrad countries. As a scriptwriter, she’s been working for several years with Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes and with Israeli director Benjamin Freidenberg.
Known for
6.1A young boy after the Hungarian uprising of 1956, raised by his mother with the tale of an idealized dead father, has his world turned upside down when a brutish man appears, claiming to be his true parent.
Orphan
2025
No synopsis available yet.
Amri
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5.9In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but becomes mired in a search for a brother she had never known of.
Sunset
2018
7.1In 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
In Appalachia during the Great Depression, a young woman bears her brother’s baby. Her brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die, but tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes and had to be buried. The sister discovers this lie and sets out to find the baby for herself. But as both brother and sister separately move through the countryside, three terrifying strangers are on their tails, wreaking death and destruction wherever they appear.
Outer Dark
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Behind the camera
6.1A young boy after the Hungarian uprising of 1956, raised by his mother with the tale of an idealized dead father, has his world turned upside down when a brutish man appears, claiming to be his true parent.
Orphan
2025
No synopsis available yet.
Amri
—
5.9In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but becomes mired in a search for a brother she had never known of.
Sunset
2018
7.1In 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
In Appalachia during the Great Depression, a young woman bears her brother’s baby. Her brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die, but tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes and had to be buried. The sister discovers this lie and sets out to find the baby for herself. But as both brother and sister separately move through the countryside, three terrifying strangers are on their tails, wreaking death and destruction wherever they appear.
Outer Dark
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