Slaughterhouse-Five
1972 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
"Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." The opening words of the famous novel are the quickest summary of this haunting, funny film. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonnegut's obsessive story of Pilgrim, who survives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden, then lives simultaneously in his past as a young American POW, in the future as a well-cared-for resident of a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore, and in the present as a middle-aged optometrist in Ilium, N.Y.
Direction George Roy Hill
Cast Michael Sacks · Ron Leibman · Eugene Roche · Sharon Gans · Valerie Perrine · Holly Near · Perry King · Kevin Conway
Soundtrack Glenn Gould
Screenplay Stephen Geller · Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Cinematography Miroslav Ondricek
Original title Slaughterhouse-Five
6.0
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