Judy Becker discusses crafting László Toth’s modernist on-screen universe—including his buildings. Brutalism is ...

Clocking in at a whopping three hours and 36 minutes, The Brutalist follows Laszlo Toth (Brody), a visionary architect who arrives in the United States after fleeing post-war Europe in 1947.

Telling the story of Hungarian-Jewish architect Laszlo Toth (Adrien Brody) - who flees to the United States during WWII but discovers that it's not the promised land he was hoping for - this is a ...