As László Tóth, Adrien Brody wowed in "The Brutalist." But was Tóth a real person, and what did actual architects think of ...

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.

Directed and produced by Brady Corbet and cowritten with his partner, Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist is a fictional biopic. Set ...

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

T o design the monumental Institute depicted in "The Brutalist," production designer Judy Becker channeled László Tóth, the film's Holocaust-surviving, Hungarian architect played by Adrien Brody.

The story follows a fictional architect, Laszlo Toth, who travels to the US to escape his war-torn home and benefit from the so-called American Dream.

Tóth, a notable Jewish architect in Europe before World War Two, was interned in a concentration camp and relocates to America in 1947 at the start of the film.