The Monument's Men Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action-thriller 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.

Action Thriller War

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in The Monument's Men.

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  George Clooney

  ... George Stout

  The Descendants, Wolfs

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  Jean Dujardin

  The Wolf of Wall Street, The Connection

• 
  Cate Blanchett

  Black Bag, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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  Paul Giamatti

  ... Lincoln Kirstein

  Jungle Cruise, Downton Abbey 3

• 
  John Goodman

  The Smurfs Musical, Flight

• 
  Daniel Craig

  No Time to Die, Queer

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  Hugh Bonneville

  Paddington in Peru, Downton Abbey 3

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  Bob Balaban

  80 For Brady, A Mighty Wind

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  Matt Damon

  Christopher Nolan Next Movie, Interstellar

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  Dimitri Leonidas

  Those About to Die (series), American Renegades

Crew Behind the Film

The The Monument's Men behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director George Clooney last directed The Boys in the Boat and The Tender Bar. The film's writer George Clooney last wrote The Ides of March and Leatherheads.

Director

George Clooney

Screenwriters

George Clooney
Grant Heslov

Producers

George Clooney
Grant Heslov

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Production Details

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Key Facts

• Much of the same film crew behind Ben Affleck's Argo, which George Clooney produced, will serve in the same capacities here.
• Based on the book The Monuments Men written by Robert Edsel.

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