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*The Monuments Men* is a 2014 war, drama, and biographical film directed by George Clooney, who also co-wrote the screenplay with producer Grant Heslov. The cast includes Matt Damon, George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and Bill Murray. The narrative focuses on World War II, the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program, and Nazi plunder, with scenes set in Paris, Normandy, Altaussee, and Ghent. The film was produced by Smokehouse Pictures and filmed in Berlin, Germany.
The movie originated in Germany and the United States, with English as its original language. Alexandre Desplat composed the score, while Phedon Papamichael served as director of photography and Stephen Mirrione as film editor. It has a runtime of 118 minutes and a production budget of 70,000,000. The film was distributed by 20th Century Studios, Netflix, Fandango at Home, and Disney+.
*The Monuments Men* received a rating of 6.1 on IMDb based on 148,754 votes and a vote average of 6.062 on TMDb from 3,809 votes. Its tagline is "It was the greatest art heist in history." The original motion picture soundtrack was released in 2014.
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6.1Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?
Cast
- George Clooney as Lt. Frank Stokes
- Matt Damon as Lt. James Granger
- Bill Murray as Sgt. Richard Campbell
- John Goodman as Sgt. Walter Garfield
- Cate Blanchett as Claire Simone
- Hugh Bonneville as 2nd Lt. Donald Jeffries
Themes
- nazi
- world war ii
- based on true story
- art theft
- post world war ii
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Key facts
- Directed by
- George Clooney
- Written by
- George Clooney Grant Heslov
- Based on
- The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History , by Robert M. Edsel Bret Witter
- Produced by
- George Clooney Grant Heslov
- Starring
- George Clooney Matt Damon Bill Murray John Goodman Jean Dujardin Bob Balaban Hugh Bonneville Cate Blanchett
- Cinematography
- Phedon Papamichael
- Edited by
- Stephen Mirrione
- Music by
- Alexandre Desplat
- Production companies
- Columbia Pictures Fox 2000 Pictures Smokehouse Pictures Studio Babelsberg
- Distributed by
- Sony Pictures Releasing , (United States and Canada) 20th Century Fox , (International)
- Release dates
- February 7, 2014 ( 2014-02-07 ) (United States) February 20, 2014 ( 2014-02-20 ) (Germany)
- Running time
- 118 minutes
- Countries
- Germany United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $70–91 million
- Box office
- $156.4 million
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Encyclopedic overview
The Monuments Men is a 2014 war film directed by George Clooney, and written and produced by Clooney and Grant Heslov. The film stars an ensemble cast including Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville and Cate Blanchett.
The film is based on the 2007 non-fiction book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter. It follows an Allied group from the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program that is given the task of finding and saving pieces of art and other culturally important items before Nazis destroy or steal them during World War II.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Monuments Men” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.