A section of Tóth's institute. For the film, Becker utilized multiple real brutalist buildings in and around Budapest to stand in for his creation. - Lol Crawley/A24 ...

Who is László Tóth? The hero of Brady Corbet’s masterpiece The Brutalist – played by Adrien Brody in an immensely affecting performance – is a Hungarian architect who survives the ...

Just as Tóth openly portrays himself to the world, so do Tóth's buildings. The world, however, is not so willing to accept these structures, and neither is it willing to accept Tóth himself.

Zsofia, Tóth’s niece, explains that the Van Buren Community Center, the building featured in “The Brutalist,” was shaped in precise ways by Tóth’s experience in a Nazi concentration camp ...

No, László Tóth is not based on a real person, though there is a Hungarian-born Australian geologist of the same, who doesn’t seem to have any connection with the story that The Brutalist tells.

But also: Did László ever get around to that bowling alley he said he was building? And why don’t we have a “Brutalist” popcorn bucket yet? Brody has design ideas!

How ‘The Brutalist’ built architect László Tóth — inside and out Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Images via CNN Newsource The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building ...

Tóth, she added, “was Jewish and was constantly being forced into this Christian world, even when it came to America. So I wanted that to be a large part of the symbolism, obvious or not.” ...