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24/01/2014 War, Drama, History 1h 58m
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It was the greatest art heist in history

Overview

Based 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?

  1. George Clooney

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. George Clooney

    Lt. Frank Stokes

  2. Matt Damon

    Lt. James Granger

  3. Bill Murray

    Sgt. Richard Campbell

  4. John Goodman

    Sgt. Walter Garfield

  5. Cate Blanchett

    Claire Simone

  6. Hugh Bonneville

    2nd Lt. Donald Jeffries

  7. Sam Hazeldine

    Colonel Langton

  8. Jean Dujardin

    2nd Lt. Jean-Claude Clermont

  9. Bob Balaban

    Pvt. Preston Savitz

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-04-15
George Clooney starred, co-wrote and directed this interesting wartime drama. It centres around an elite squad sent to try to rescue precious works of art from the retreating Nazi war machine. Not elite in an SAS or SEAL type military sense, but dedicated to identifying and preserving these artefacts that could be anything from a small painting to a life-sized statue. Historically and logistically it is all over the place, but it has a feel-good sentiment to it for the most part. It focusses on another quite visceral, but perhaps less often considered aspect of the atrocities to posterity carr...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$70,000,000.00

Revenue
$154,984,035.00

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