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Unit photography by Claudette Barius, SMPSP, courtesy of Sony Pictures
Entertainment. Lighting diagram courtesy of Tobias von dem Borne.

Opposite: In The
Monuments
Men, the U.S.
government
sends a group of
architects, art
historians and
museum curators
behind enemy
lines to save
precious cultural
artifacts from
Nazi destruction.
This page, top:
James Granger
(Matt Damon)
meets with Frank
Stokes (George
Clooney) to
discuss the
mission. Bottom:
Clooney shifts
gears to direct a
scene alongside
cinematographer
Phedon
Papamichael,
ASC (wearing
hat) in a Cologne
military hospital.

Papamichael, ASC to shoot the project
after working with him on The Ides of
March. Heslov, who has directed
commercials Papamichael has shot,
says, "Phedon checks off all the boxes
George and I look for: He's a great
shooter, he's fun and easy to be around,
and he's fast. George has a strong opinion about how he wants things to look,
and Phedon quickly figures out the best
way to achieve that. He is a great collaborator."
Immediately after wrapping
Alexander Payne's Nebraska, just before
Christmas 2012, Papamichael hopped a
plane out of Omaha to Berlin to do
preliminary scouting. He began 10
consecutive weeks of prep in early
January; this phase largely involved
firming up locations with production
designer James D. Bissell and conducting camera tests. At the time, Clooney
and Heslov were busy collecting prizes
for their production of Argo (AC Nov.
'12), but the day after the Academy
Awards, they flew to Berlin for the rest
of prep.
Papamichael, Clooney and

Heslov screened World War II documentaries that included The Rape of
Europa, which was coproduced by
Edsel, for historical context and to get a
feel for physical details such as the
Monuments Men's appearance. They
also reviewed World War II dramas
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from the 1960s and 1970s, including
The Guns of Navarone, The Great Escape,
The Dirty Dozen and A Bridge Too Far
(AC April '77). "Those are the movies
George and I grew up on, and those are
the ones that influenced us the most,"
says Heslov. "But we also wanted our
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