Name: Slaughterhouse-Five
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, War
Released: 1972-03-15
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Valerie Perrine, Holly Near

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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.

Theatrical

Mar 15, 1972

DVD / Blu-ray

Mar 18, 1998

Budget

$3.2M

Director

George Roy Hill

Writer

Stephen Geller

Producers

George Roy Hill, Paul Monash, Jennings Lang

Studio

Universal Pictures, Vanadas Productions

Keywords

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) based on novel or book husband wife relationship world war ii prisoner of war time travel dresden, germany airplane crash reckless driving firing squad optometrist distant planet german army alien civilization crash survivor nonlinear narrative