Géza Röhrig
Actor
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.
Filmography
Resistance
as Georges Loinger 2020
Marty Supreme
as Béla Kletzki 2025
Undergods
as Z 2021
The Chaperone
as Joseph 2019
To Dust
as Shmuel 2019
Fog of War
as Viktor 2025
Desert Warrior
2025
Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania
as Philip 2023
A Country Divided
2018
The Way of the Wind
as Jesus TBA
Bad Art
as Gene 2019