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Slaughterhouse-Five
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.
1972 · Directed by George Roy Hill · 100 min · Drama · Science Fiction · War · 11 frames
Tagline
Billy Pilgrim lives —from time to time to time…
Crew
- Screenplay: Stephen Geller
- Cinematography: Miroslav Ondříček
- Edited by: Dede Allen
- Music: Glenn Gould
- Production design: Henry Bumstead
- Produced by: George Roy Hill, Paul Monash
Cast
- Michael Sacks as Billy Pilgrim
- Ron Leibman as Paul Lazzaro
- Eugene Roche as Derby
- Sharon Gans as Valencia
- Valerie Perrine as Montana Wildhack
- Holly Near as Barbara
- Perry King as Robert
- Kevin Conway as Weary
- Friedrich von Ledebur as German Leader
- Ekkehardt Belle as Young German Guard
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, German, Russian
- Studios: Universal Pictures, Vanadas Productions
- Budget: $3,200,000
- Themes: husband wife relationship, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, world war ii, prisoner of war, time travel, dresden, germany, airplane crash, reckless driving, firing squad
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