![]() ![]() Rohrig’s task is to sit with bodies – and also to wash them before burial. Jewish custom holds that a dead body should “not be left alone before a funeral”. The 48-year-old Hungarian poet and actor has spent many years working as a shomer or watcher at a New York Jewish funeral home. Whatever the case, it’s a work of integrity and great craftsmanship – and it’s one film that the wisecracking Oscars host Chris Rock surely won’t want to joke about.ĭead serious: Star’s slightly morbid part-time jobĪs an article in this week’s New Yorker magazine revealed, Geza Rohrig, who plays the lead in Laszlo Nemes’s Holocaust drama (and foreign language Oscar contender) Son Of Saul, has a very unusual part-time job. It will be a major surprise if Nemes’s film – which will be released in the UK at the end of April – doesn’t pick up the Foreign Language Oscar. “The Holocaust was not a story of survival.
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