In real life, Laszlo Toth was a Hungarian-born Australian geologist who vandalised Michelangelo’s Pieta in 1972. The only way to honour a powerhouse as extraordinary as Quincy Jones is to get a ...

The worst incident of this kind took place in 1972, when Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth took a hammer to Michelangelo's marble sculpture Pietà (1498–99), which is also in St Peter's Basilica.

The Brutalist follows a Holocaust survivor and architect named László Tóth, a character so well-written (and well-acted by Adrien Brody, who won an Oscar for his performance) that many audience ...

But, no, László is not real, nor is Brady Corbet's acclaimed epic a true story in the traditional sense. Corbet and his co-writer, Mona Fastvold, stitched together their tale from a vast assortment of ...

Corbet's historical epic depicts forty years in the life of Toth, a Hungarian Jew and survivor of the Nazi ... What is important to acknowledge here is that Laszlo's monumental achievements represent ...

Was László Tóth a real person? Or is this a Lydia Tár situation? The Brutalist follows a Holocaust survivor and architect named László Tóth, a character so well-written (and well-acted by ...

SINGAPORE – For a while, Adrien Brody was sitting pretty. For playing the immigrant architect Laszlo Toth in the post-World War II drama The Brutalist, he had won the key races in the lead up to ...

Here are five things to know about the film, which is up for 10 Academy Awards including best picture: Director Brady Corbet has said his protagonist Laszlo Toth is an "amalgamation" of several ...

‘The Brutalist’, the story’s hero Laszlo Toth, is a Jewish Hungarian architect loosely made to resemble Bauhaus designer Marcel Breuer. Having built extensively in pre-war Europe, Toth ...

The Gist: Our first impression of Laszlo Toth (Brody): Emotionally, shall we say, aggressive. Passion bursts from his every pore. A Hungarian Jew from Budapest, he managed to survive the Holocaust ...

Director Brady Corbet has said his protagonist Laszlo Toth is an “amalgamation” of several famed architects, most notably Breuer. Like the fictional Toth, Breuer was born in Hungary ...

Director Brady Corbet has said his protagonist Laszlo Toth is an "amalgamation" of several famed architects, most notably Breuer. Like the fictional Toth, Breuer was born in Hungary, honed his ...