Slaughterhouse-Five

About 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 unspe…

Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) is a science fiction war film directed by George Roy Hill. The film is filed under post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), prisoner of war, airplane crash, and nonlinear narrative.

Michael Sacks takes the lead as Billy Pilgrim, Ron Leibman as Paul Lazzaro, Eugene Roche as Derby, and Sharon Gans as Valencia. It runs 100 minutes and was released in March 1972.

The screenplay is by Stephen Geller. It is adapted from a novel.

Oppenheimer, Unbroken, and The Great Escape make useful companions to Slaughterhouse-Five, all filed under husband wife relationship and world war ii. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 272 votes and it carries a R rating.