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Slaughterhouse-Five

1972 Film Synopsis & Plot Summary

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 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.

Full Plot Summary 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.

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