"The Brutalist" is a nearly four-hour historical drama starring Adrien Brody as celebrated architect László Tóth. Here's what's real in the new movie.

Explore the true history that inspired the creation of the fictional architect in Brady Corbet's The Brutalist.

It’s the only place the movie could have been done.” This was as much about finding a backdrop that looked like 1950s America as it was about making use of studios, with three months of location-hunting taking place around the city before filming began.

As Bob Dylan and Laszlo Tóth, Timothée Chalamet and Adrien Brody depict different, but related trajectories for Jewish artists.

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,

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after

Pennsylvania Department of Commerce in the 1950s, the 'promos' for the state aimed to attract tourism and business

Adrien Brody captivates as a post-war immigrant who comes to America to chase his version of the American Dream.

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?

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes.

Production designer Judy Becker channeled the ghost of modernists like Marcel Breuer to create the rooms and buildings that give the movie it’s soul.

Pennsylvania's rich architectural history is in the spotlight with the Academy Award-nominated film The Brutalist, which tells the story of an immigrant architect’s journey to design his first American masterpiece in Doylestown.