AWARDS 1972: Saturn awards: Best science film
1972: Cannes Film Festival: Prix du Jury
ORIGINAL TITLE: Slaughterhouse-Five
YEAR 1972
RUNNING TIME 104 min.
DIRECTOR George Roy Hill
SCREENWRITER Stephen Geller ( Novel: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
COMPOSER Glenn Gould
CINEMATOGRAPHER Miroslav Ondricek
CAST Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine, Holly
Near, Perry King, Kevin Conway.
STUDIO/ PRODUCER Universal Pictures
PLOT SUMMARY
" Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. " The opening words of the famous novel are the quickest summary of this haunting, funny film. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonnegut's obsessive story of Pilgrim, who survives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden, then lives simultaneously in his past as a young American POW, in the future as a well-cared-for resident of a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore, and in the present as a middle-aged optometrist in Ilium, N.Y.
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