The Brutalist, Carrara marble becomes a star in Oscar-nominated film
The Tuscan city is set for one of the most beautiful films of 2025. Discover it with us!
Power of cinema: Carrara became the set for one of the most iconic films of 2025, The Brutalist.
The work, in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2024, and winner of the very Silver Lion for best director, on the night of the Golden Globes 2025 won three major awards, (best dramatic film, director precisely, and the award to Adrien Brody, best dramatic actor), going on to win three statuettes at the Oscars 2025: best actor with Adrien Brody, best cinematography with Lol Crawley, and best original score with Daniel Blumberg.
It has been in theaters since February, distributed by Universal Pictures International Italy: it stars a superb Adrien Brody as László Toth, a Hungarian Jewish architect who escaped anti-Semitic persecution; since the postwar period, and over a span of 30 years, he goes from being poor to becoming an established professional. His life changes when wealthy Pennsylvania businessman Van Buren asks him to design a massive modernist monument, a single block of marble destined to soar over the hillside that will be a building with multiple functions, a place of prayer, a library, an auditorium, and a gymnasium.
Cave di Marmo di Carrara (ph. Dario Garofalo)The idea for the film is rumored to have been born during a dinner between the protagonist and director in Pietrasanta (find out here what to see and where to eat in the little Athens of Tuscany), in one of the many restaurants in the small streets of the town. Set the marble quarries of the superb Carrara, shining, rough and sharp as the marble that tells the story. A town waiting to be discovered, which we tell you about in this itinerary.
Cave di Marmo di Carrara (ph. Dario Garofalo)Central node remains its quarries (a more in-depth look can be read here) from which the highly prized marble used by artists of every age is extracted.