American actor and director George Clooney started shooting in Berlin this week his new film, The Monuments Men.

Fact-fully, Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville and John Goodman are some of the stars in the cast of a movie scheduled to be in production until next summer.

Furthermore, The Monuments Men will be a co-production of the German studio Siebente Babelsberg Film GmbH together with Clooney and Grant Heslov’s production company Smokehouse Pictures, in what will be its first project since taking the Oscar for Best Picture with “Argo” in February.

Interestingly, Clooney’s part in the filmmaking will go beyond producing and directing while the actor also collaborated with Heslov in writing the screenplay.

The film which is based on a book authored by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter, tells the true story of the World War II battalion sent by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to scour Germany for the works of art seized by the Nazi army and return them to their rightful owners.

Sony Pictures will be in charge of distributing the movie in Spain while Twentieth Century Fox will handle the task internationally.

The Monuments Men,tells the story of seven men who will do anything to recover the works of art stolen by Germany’s Nazi army.

As a concluding fact, shooting got under way two weeks ago in Berlin and nearby Potsdam, starting with interior scenes.

It should be a intensely inspiring war film to watch.

(AW:Samrat Biswas)