"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.

In depicting an architect who flees Nazi Germany, the Oscar-winning actor was mindful of his mother’s journey to America.

Adrien Brody has heard the cliched line plenty of times about how a fellow actor was “born” to play a role. Usually those pronouncements come in the leadup to awards season, when performers are angling for critical praise as they hope to add an acting trophy to their mantlepiece.

Adrien Brody’s performance as a Hungarian architect in “ The Brutalist ” has won him his first Golden Globe. In the three-and-a-half hour film directed by Brady Corbet, the actor plays László Tóth, a Holocaust survivor trying to rebuild his life in America following the war.

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Adrien Brody speaks at the premiere of The Brutalist about how the film made him understand his mother's experience as an immigrant from Hungary.