The Monuments Men

The Monuments Men is a 2014 AmericanGerman war film directed by George Clooney, written and produced by Clooney and Grant Heslov. The film stars Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and Cate Blanchett. It is loosely based on the nonfiction book The Monuments Men Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter. The film 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 their destruction or theft by the Nazis during World War II.

In 1943 during World War II, the Allies are making good progress driving back the Axis powers in Italy. However, Frank Stokes George Clooney persuades the American President that victory will have little meaning if the artistic treasures of Western civilization are lost in the fighting. Stokes is directed to assemble an Army unit nicknamed the Monuments Men, comprising seven museum directors, curators, and art historians to both guide Allied units and search for stolen art to return it to its rightful owners.Claire Simone Cate Blanchett, a curator in occupied France, is forced to assist Nazi officers like Viktor Stahl Justus von Dohnnyi to oversee the theft of art for either Adolf Hitlers proposed Fhrermuseum in Linz, or as the personal property of senior commanders like Herman Goering. While she is nearly arrested for helping her Maquis brother unsuccessfully recapture such items, all seems lost when she discovers that Stahl is taking all of her gallerys contents to Germany as the Allies approach Paris. Simone runs to the railyard to confront Stahl, but can only watch as Stahl departs aboard the train carrying the precious cargo, standing defiantly as he futilely fires his pistol at her. ........

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