Slaughterhouse-Five
Billy Pilgrim lives —from time to time to time…
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- Science Fiction
- Drama
- War
Overview
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
- time travel
- world war ii
- war crimes
- airplane crash
- husband wife relationship
- germany
- prisoner of war
- alien civilization
- crash survivor
- dresden
- reckless driving
- distant planet
- firing squad
- german army
- dark humor
- nonlinear narrative
- optometrist
- pow survivor
- pow camp
- dresden, germany
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 15, 1972
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, German, Russian
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures,Vanadas Productions
- Cast
- Michael Sacks,Ron Leibman,Eugene Roche,Sharon Gans,Valerie Perrine,Holly Near,Perry King,Kevin Conway,Friedrich von Ledebur,Ekkehardt Belleand 14 more
- Director
- George Roy Hill
- Writer
- Stephen Geller,Kurt Vonnegut
- Producer
- George Roy Hill,Jennings Lang,Paul Monash
- Cinematography
- Miroslav Ondříček
- Budget
- $3,200,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt0069280