Director: George Clooney
Writer: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
Starring: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett
Released: March 13, 2014
Rating: (M)
Runtime: 118 minutes
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Story: Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys - seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 - possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind's greatest achievements.
Cast:
George Clooney Frank Stokes
Matt Damon James Granger
Bill Murray Richard Campbell
Cate Blanchett Claire Simone
John Goodman Walter Garfield
Jean Dujardin Jean Claude Clermont
Hugh Bonneville Donald Jeffries
Bob Balaban Preston Savitz
Dimitri Leonidas Sam Epstein
Justus von Dohnanyi Viktor Stahl
Holger Handtke Colonel Wegner
Michael Hofland Priest (Claude)
Zahary Baharov Commander Elya
Michael Brandner Dentist
Sam Hazeldine Colonel Langton