László Fejes Tóth was a mathematician born in 1915, and László Tahi Tóth was an award-winning Hungarian actor who passed away in 2018. Clearly, there is not an architect among them.

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.” ...

Felicity Jones as Erzsébet Tóth, László’s wife, a journalist and Holocaust survivor Guy Pearce as Harrison Lee Van Buren, a wealthy industrialist who becomes László’s primary client ...

Adrien Brody as László Tóth, the architect and Holocaust survivor at the center of Brady Corbet's new film "The Brutalist."© Lol Crawley/A24 ...