The hero of Brady Corbet’s Oscar contender “The Brutalist”— the fictional, Hungarian-born Jewish architect László Toth — journeys from Budapest to the U.S. to rebuild his life after fleeing a concentration camp and the ravages of post-war Europe. But while Toth’s travels cut across a wide swath of the mid-century world, Corbet’s production had a much smaller footprint: Most of the film — including its depiction of 1950s American suburbia — was shot in Budapest.
“It was a huge challenge,” admits Viktoria Petrányi, of the film’s Hungarian co-producer, Proton Cinema. But Corbet, production designer Judy Becker and a team of Hungarian crew proved “extremely intelligent about choosing locations” while
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