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The Brutalist, and the truth about the Nazis’ war on ‘degenerate’ architects

Who is László Tóth? The hero of Brady Corbet’s masterpiece The Brutalist – played by Adrien Brody in an immensely affecting performance – is a Hungarian architect who survives the Holocaust and flees to the United States in 1947. There, he is recruited by Guy Pearce’s smooth but dangerous plutocrat Harrison Van Buren to work on a hugely ambitious modernist building project. So convincing is Corbet’s sweeping epic – made on a staggeringly low $10 million budget and nominated for 10 Oscars – that
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