Slaughterhouse-Five
6.5/10
Rating
100 min
Runtime
1972
Release Year
George Roy Hill
Director
Cast
Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine
Quick Synopsis
Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran, experiences an unusual condition where he involuntarily moves through different periods of his life. He shifts between his childhood, his time as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany, and his strange existence on an alien planet called Tralfamadore. Throughout these time shifts, he confronts the trauma of the war and the devastating bombing of Dresden, events that deeply affect his understanding of life and fate.
Detailed Synopsis of 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.
