The Monuments Men

In 1943, the Allies are making good progress driving back the Axis powers in Italy. Frank Stokes convinces President Roosevelt that victory will have little meaning if the artistic treasures of Western civilization are lost. Stokes is directed to assemble an Army unit nicknamed the "Monuments Men", comprising museum directors, curators, art historians, and an architect, to both guide Allied units and search for stolen art to return it to its rightful owners.

In July 1944, Claire Simone, a curator in occupied France, is forced to assist Nazi officer Viktor Stahl in overseeing the theft of art for either Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum or as personal property of senior commanders such as Hermann Göring. All seems lost when she discovers that Stahl is taking all of her gallery's contents to Germany as the Allies approach Paris. Simone runs to the railyard to confront him, but can only watch as he departs aboard the train carrying the cargo.

MPAA Rating:PG-13
Genre:Drama, War, Comedy, History
Country:Germany, United States
Produced By:Henning Molfenter, Charlie Woebcken, Grant Heslov, Christoph Fisser, Barbara A. Hall, George Clooney
Directed By:George Clooney
Written By:Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter, George Clooney, Grant Heslov
Cast:James Payton, Maximilian Seidel, Mitchell Thornton, Vince Taylor, Andrew Byron, Matt Rippy, Zachary Baharov, Christian Rodska, Matthew John Morley, David L. Price, Oliver Devoti, Kevin Fyfe, Matt Damon, Adam Gary, Xavier Laurent, Joe Warshaw, James Francis Andrews, Adrian Bouchet, Michael Brandner, Jason Ebelthite, André Hinderlich, Lee Asquith-Coe, Joe Reynolds, John Goodman, Holger Handtke, Cate Blanchett, Jorge Leon Martinez, Kathrin Susanne Rieger, Audrey Marnay, Grant Heslov, Stefan Kolosko, James Ayling, Oscar Copp, Jean Dujardin, Marco Flammer, Nick Clooney, Jo Marriott, Adam Rabinowitz, Max Cavenham, Miles Jupp, Michael Hofland, Bill Murray, Roberto Gomez Martin, Morris Minelli, Robert Eames, Andrew James Porter, Nick Donald, Thomas Braun, Justus Von Dohnányi, Stanley Grimmer, Vander McLeod, Sam Hazeldine, Declan Mills, Bob Balaban, Nic Bernasconi, Adam Prickett, Andrew Alexander, Richard Cullen, Martin Crossingham, Ben-Ryan Davies, Alexandre Desplat, Udo Kroschwald, Joel Basman, Werner Braunschädel, Randy Witte, Luc Feit, Graham Curry, Stewart James Barham, Diarmaid Murtagh, Luciana Castellucci, Mac Pietowski, Levi Strasser, Colin Coombs, Lucas Tavernier, George Clooney, Richard Crehan, Hugh Bonneville, Claudia Geisler-Bading, Ben Probert, Dimitri Leonidas, Corin Stuart, Aurélia Poirier, Emil Von Schönfels, James Michael Rankin, Serge Hazanavicius, John Dagleish
In Theaters:Feb 07, 2014
Runtime:1 hour 58 minutes
Production:Columbia Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures, Smokehouse Pictures, Obelisk Productions, Studio Babelsberg
Budget:$70,000,000
Box Office:$78,031,620
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