SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORICAL WORLD WAR II ACTION DRAMA 'THE MONUMENTS MEN' WITH GEORGE CLOONEY, CATE BLANCHETT, JOHN GOODMAN, BILL MURRAY, HUGH BONNEVILLE, MATT DAMON, JEAN DUJARDIN!

THE MONUMENTS MEN

SAVING ART FROM THE NAZIS

Human lives are the most important, but how important are human achievements? In the times of peril and danger would you risk your life to save works of art, the cultural heritage nurtured and admired for hundreds of years, in order to save what the foundations of civilization and society are? This is what THE MONUMENTS MEN actually did in World War II and you will watch their story in historical action which opens up in cinemas next February starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett!

MONUMENTAL STORY

 GREATEST ART HEIST IN HISTORY

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 mankind's greatest achievements.

MONUMENTAL TIDBITS

GEORGE CLOONEY & CATE BLANCHETT
Beside George Clooney and Cate Blanchett who lead the cast (this is their second time to act together in a war movie after THE GOOD GERMAN), the movie also has Bill Murray, John Goodman, French star Jean Dujardin, DOWNTON ABBEY star Hugh Bonneville and Matt Damon (the role was originally meant for Daniel Craig). THE MONUMENTS MEN are both directed and written by Clooney who based the story of the film on the book 'The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History' by Robert M. Edsel! Thousands of extras were used in some of the military scenes!