The simple answer is no, The Brutalist is not based on a true story, and is an entirely fictional film.

For 15 minutes in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, audiences are confronted with a still image. Adrien Brody, as immigrant architect Laszlo Tóth, stands with his bride outside a Budapest synagogue, surrounded by family.

Yolanthe Fawehinmi chats to stars Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce and writer-director Brady Corbet about the message of Oscar-tipped biopic The Brutalist

Adrien Brody returns to Oscar-winning form as architect László Toth, a Holocaust survivor who arrives in America to start a new life.

The Australian actor digs into his role as a wealthy industrialist opposite Adrien Brody in Brady Corbet’s acclaimed mid-century American epic.

After so many years of setbacks and threats, he keeps returning to his great new American building. It is torture; it is hell, but on he goes. In a Europe ravaged by wars, brutalism found a purpose in the relatively inexpensive and abundant nature of concrete and the need for large,

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PLOT Following the horrors of World War II, a Jewish architect embarks on a troubled career in America. BOTTOM LINE A towering achievement despite its flaws. If you build a masterpiece that eventually falls apart, was it still a masterpiece?

The Brutalist' director Brady Corbet is defending the controversial use of AI to alter Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’ Hungarian accents in his acclaimed film

So overall, I think Corbet succeeds at his grand ambitions: he has crafted a compelling modern American epic rich in mood, ideas, and scope. It is a Great American Film.

Director Brady Corbet has defended the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in his award-winning film The Brutalist. In the epic drama, Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones play Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivors László and Erzsébet Tóth who emigrate to America in search of a better life.