Clara Royer

Clara Royer

Birth : 1981-01-01, Paris, France

History

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.

Profile

Clara Royer

Movies

Sunset
Sunset
Writer
Set in Budapest in 1913, when the city was considered to be at the heart of Europe. 20-year-old Irisz Leiter, arrives in the Hungarian capital after spending her younger years in an orphanage, hoping to work as a milliner in the legendary hat store that belonged to her late parents. She is suddenly confronted with her past and starts searching for answers about her family before stumbling upon dark secrets.
Son of Saul
Son of Saul
Screenplay
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.
The Orphan
The Orphan
Writer
Set in the late 1950s and focused on a little boy. Premise TBA.