Clara Royer
Writing
Biography
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
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
In 1957 Budapest, one year following the failure of the Hungarian Revolution, a 12-year-old Jewish boy whose mother has raised him to believe that his father will return from the camps has his hopes shattered when a brutish stranger appears on the doorstep to take his family back.
Orphan
In 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
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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