The film follows a firing-on-all-cylinders Adrien Brody as architect and Hungarian Jewish immigrant László Toth, who abandons post-World War II Europe for Pennsylvania circa 1947. There, he’s commissioned to work for the industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce),

Guy Pearce discusses Van Buren’s fate in ‘The Brutalist’ and gives an insight into the filming of one of the most crucial scenes of Brady Corbet’s historical epic.