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2014 war film by George Clooney

The Monuments Men
The Monuments Men poster.jpg

Theatrical release poster
Directed past George Clooney
Written past
  • George Clooney
  • Grant Heslov
Based on The Monuments Men
by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter
Produced by
  • George Clooney
  • Grant Heslov
Starring
  • George Clooney
  • Matt Damon
  • Nib Murray
  • John Goodman
  • Jean Dujardin
  • Bob Balaban
  • Hugh Bonneville
  • Cate Blanchett
Cinematography Phedon Papamichael
Edited by Stephen Mirrione
Music by Alexandre Desplat

Production
companies
  • Columbia Pictures
  • Flim-flam 2000 Pictures
  • Smokehouse Pictures
  • Studio Babelsberg
Distributed past
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
    (North America)
  • 20th Century Fox
    (International)

Release dates
  • February seven, 2014 (2014-02-07) (United States)
  • February 20, 2014 (2014-02-20) (Federal republic of germany)

Running time

 118 minutes[1]
Countries
  • Germany
  • U.s.a.
Language English
Upkeep $70–91 million[2] [3]
Box office $155 million[2]

The Monuments Men is a 2014 war film directed by George Clooney, and written and produced by Clooney and Grant Heslov. The picture stars an ensemble cast including Clooney, Matt Damon, Pecker Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and Cate Blanchett.

The flick is loosely based on the 2007 non-fiction book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter. It follows an Allied group from the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program that is given the job of finding and saving pieces of art and other culturally important items before Nazis destroy or steal them, during Globe War Two.[4] [v]

The Monuments Men was co-produced by Columbia Pictures (in association with 20th Century Fox) and Babelsberg Studio. It received mixed disquisitional reviews and grossed $155 one thousand thousand worldwide confronting a $91 meg upkeep.

Plot [edit]

In 1943, the Allies are making practiced progress driving back the Centrality powers in Italy. Frank Stokes convinces President Roosevelt that victory will have footling meaning if the artistic treasures of Western civilization are lost. Stokes is directed to gather an Army unit of measurement nicknamed the "Monuments Men", comprising museum directors, curators, fine art historians, and an architect, to both guide Allied units and search for stolen fine art to return it to its rightful owners.

In July 1944, Claire Simone, a curator in occupied France, is forced to assistance Nazi officer Viktor Stahl in overseeing the theft of fine art for either Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum or equally personal property of senior commanders such as Hermann Göring. All seems lost when she discovers that Stahl is taking all of her gallery'due south contents to Frg equally the Allies arroyo Paris. Simone runs to the railyard to confront him, but can only sentry as he departs aboard the train conveying the cargo.

Stokes' unit finds its work frustrated past Allied officers in the field, who reject to endanger their own troops for the sake of his mission. The unit splits up to embrace more footing, with varying degrees of success. James Granger meets Simone, but she suspects the Americans want to confiscate the stolen art for their ain country, and refuses to cooperate. British officeholder Donald Jeffries sneaks into occupied Bruges at night to salve Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges, merely is killed in the try.

Richard Campbell and Preston Savitz learn that Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece was removed past the priests of Ghent Cathedral for safekeeping, just their truck was stopped and the panels taken. Eventually, they notice and arrest Viktor Stahl, who is hiding as a farmer, when they identify the paintings in his house equally masterpieces, at least one stolen from the Rothschild Drove.

In December 1944, Walter Garfield and Jean Claude Clermont become lost in the countryside and blunder into a firefight. Clermont is mortally wounded and dies when Garfield is unable to find medical assist. Meanwhile, Simone reconsiders when Granger shows her the Nero Decree, which orders the destruction of all German possessions if Hitler dies or Germany falls, and she sees him render a painting looted from a Jewish family to its rightful identify in their empty habitation. She provides a comprehensive ledger she has compiled that provides valuable information on the stolen art and the rightful owners.

Even every bit the squad learns that the artwork is beingness stored in diverse mines and castles, it besides learns that it must now compete against the Soviet Marriage, which is seizing artwork from its occupation zone every bit state of war reparations. Meanwhile, Colonel Wegner is systematically destroying whole art caches. Somewhen, the team has some success, every bit it discovers at to the lowest degree one mine hiding over 16,000 art pieces. In addition, the team captures the entire aureate reserves of the Nazi High german national treasury.

Finally, every bit the war ends in May 1945, the team finds a mine in Austria that appears to accept been demolished, and the Soviets will be in that location in hours. Discovering that the entrances were actually blocked by the locals to prevent the Nazis from destroying the contents, the team evacuates every bit much artwork equally possible, including sculptures, the Ghent Altarpiece, and the Madonna and Kid, earlier the Soviets arrive.

After, Stokes reports back to President Truman that the team has recovered vast quantities of artwork and various other culturally meaning items. Every bit he requests to stay in Europe to oversee further searching and restoration, Truman asks Stokes if his efforts were worth the lives of the men he lost. Stokes says they were. Truman then asks if, 30 years from and so, anyone volition remember that these men died for a piece of fine art. In the final scene, set in 1977, the elderly Stokes replies "Yep", while he takes his grandson to see Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna.

Bandage [edit]

  • George Clooney as Lieutenant Frank Stokes, loosely based on George L. Stout
    • Nick Clooney plays an aged Stokes
  • Matt Damon as Lieutenant James Granger, loosely based on James Rorimer
  • Neb Murray as Sergeant Richard Campbell, loosely based on Ralph Warner Hammett and Robert K. Posey
  • John Goodman as Sergeant Walter Garfield, loosely based on Walker Hancock
  • Jean Dujardin as 2nd Lieutenant Jean-Claude Clermont
  • Bob Balaban as Private Preston Savitz, loosely based on Lincoln Kirstein
  • Hugh Bonneville equally 2nd Lieutenant Donald Jeffries, loosely based on Ronald E. Balfour
  • Cate Blanchett equally Claire Simone, loosely based on Rose Valland
  • Serge Hazanavicius as René Armand, loosely based on Jacques Jaujard
  • Sam Hazeldine as Colonel Langton
  • Dimitri Leonidas every bit Individual Sam Epstein, loosely based on Harry L. Ettlinger
  • Grant Heslov as the Army Field Surgeon
  • Miles Jupp as Major Fielding
  • Justus von Dohnányi as Viktor Stahl
  • Zahari Baharov as Commander Elya

Production [edit]

A co-production between Columbia Pictures (in association with 20th Century Play a trick on) and Germany'due south Studio Babelsberg,[half-dozen] the film was funded by the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) with €viii.5 million,[7] Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg likewise as Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg.[8] [9] Casting was held in February 2013 for thousands of extras for the military machine scenes.[10] [11]

Master photography began in early March 2013, at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam, Federal republic of germany, in the Berlin-Brandenburg region, and the Harz. The mines around Bad Grund, peculiarly the Wiemannsbucht and the Grube Hilfe Gottes, were used in the filming of outdoor scenes. Other outdoor locations were the towns of Lautenthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Goslar, Halberstadt, Merseburg, and Osterwieck. Some of the scenes, including flights and American state of war base footage, were filmed at Imperial State of war Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK.[12] [13] A farm in Ashford in Kent was too used.[14] Filming was scheduled to last until the cease of June 2013, wrapping upwardly in Rye, Due east Sussex.[15]

Release [edit]

The picture show was originally set to exist released on December 18, 2013,[16] and a trailer was released on Baronial eight, 2013.[17] However, on October 22, 2013, the picture show was pushed back to February 2014, because issues balancing humor with the serious nature of the subject matter caused mail service-product to accept longer than expected.[18] [nineteen] [20]

The moving-picture show was screened on February seven, 2014, at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.[21] [22] It was as well screened at UNESCO, on 27 March 2014, on the occasion of the panel discussion "Modernistic Day Monuments Men and Women" on the preservation of heritage in times of disharmonize and the fight confronting the illicit trafficking of cultural belongings.[23]

Reception [edit]

The Monuments Men received mixed reviews from film critics.[24] [25] On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 30% approval rating, based on 254 reviews, with an average score of five.two/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Its intentions are noble and its cast is impressive, but neither tin can recoup for The Monuments Men 's stiffly nostalgic tone and curiously slack narrative."[26] On Metacritic, the moving picture has a weighted boilerplate score of 52 out of 100, based on reviews from 43 critics, indicating "mixed or boilerplate reviews".[24] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B+" on calibration of A to F.[27]

Peter Travers in Rolling Stone Magazine gave it 3 out of four stars, noting that while some of the dialogue and emotions seemed inauthentic, the concrete product and cinematography were "exquisite," with shooting done on locations in Frg and England.[28] In comparing the motion-picture show with gimmicky ones, he considered information technology a "proudly untrendy, uncynical movie," where the story involved people seeking something more than valuable than money. He added, "Clooney [as manager] feels in that location'southward much to be learned from these unsung fine art warriors...The Monuments Men is a picture nearly aspiration, nearly culture at risk, almost things worth fighting for. I'd telephone call that timely and well worth a salute."[28] He also wrote that "...[eastward]scapism junkies may feel betrayed."[29]

Richard Roeper from the Chicago Sunday-Times called the motion picture an "...engaging, shamelessly corny and entertaining World State of war Two take a chance inspired by truthful events"; he gave it a 3/iv.[29] Pic critic Richard Corliss from Fourth dimension Mag stated that "...[r]ather than juicing each element to blockbuster volume, Clooney has delivered it in the tone of a memorial lecture, warm and ambling, given past 1 of the distinguished academics he put in his motion picture."[29]

Historian Alex von Tunzelmann, writing for The Guardian, noted several historical faults and said of the plot, "If yous're getting the sense that the picture is episodic and poorly structured, unfortunately y'all'd be right", and "There are far likewise many characters, so the screenplay splits them up into piddling groups and sends them off on various errands. Some of these are more exciting than others – but they do non add up to a satisfying plot. A TV series might accept been a improve vehicle for the "monuments men" stories than a characteristic flick... The story is fascinating, but this film'south good intentions are hampered by its lack of pace, direction, tone and properly fleshed-out characters."[30]

Historical accuracy [edit]

The film is based on real events, but the names of all characters were changed, and a number of further adjustments were made to the historical facts in the interests of drama.[31] Clooney is quoted every bit saying, "eighty per centum of the story is all the same completely true and accurate, and almost all of the scenes happened".[32] The accounts of some events accept, even so, been contradistinct to serve the film's dramatic portrayal of the retrieval of these treasures.

During the Nazi period, a huge number of European art treasures pillaged by the Germans had been stored in the Altaussee salt mine near the town of Bad Aussee. In the picture show, information technology is stated that 'local miners' had diddled up the mine to prevent the contents being destroyed. In 1945 a British Special Operations Executive mission, codenamed Bonzos and led by Albrecht Gaiswinkler, was responsible for saving the looted art stored in Austrian salt mines. These personnel had been parachuted into the Aussee expanse, where he raised a force of around 300 men, armed them with captured German weapons, and spent the last weeks and months of the war harassing local German language forces. When the Americans arrived, his data helped them capture several prominent Nazis. He and his colleagues had captured the salt mine, prevented the destruction of the artworks held at that place, and were able to hand over "a number of Nazi treasure hoards, including a expert copy of the Mona Lisa [33] (which is subject of debate[34]) and the Austrian Imperial Crown Jewels". Other artworks rescued included Hubert and January van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece.[35] [36] [37] [38] [39]

Nigel Pollard of Swansea University awarded the film but 2 stars out of five for historical accuracy.[forty] Pollard wrote, "In that location'southward a kernel of history in that location, simply The Monuments Men plays fast and loose with information technology in ways that are probably necessary to brand the story work every bit a movie, just the viewer ends up with a adequately dislocated notion of what the organisation Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program (MFAA) was, and what information technology accomplished. The real organisation was never a big one (a few dozen officers at most), but the film reduces information technology to just seven men to personalise the hunt for the looted art: five Americans, i British officer, the first to be killed off (Hugh Bonneville), and a Free French officer, marginalising the British role in the establishment of the organisation. This is presented every bit ready up at Clooney'due south [Stokes'] initiative later on the bombing of Monte Cassino (so, after February 1944). In fact, its origins actually went back to British efforts in Libya in 1942, and it already existed (admitting with teething troubles) when the Allies invaded Sicily in July 1943."

See as well [edit]

  • Rescuing Da Vinci (2006 volume)
  • The Rape of Europa (1994 book and 2006 documentary picture show)
  • The Train (1964 film)
  • The Hessen Thing (2009 film)
  • Woman in Gold (2015 film)

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External links [edit]

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monuments_Men

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