Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
Release Year: 1972
Nation: United States
Alternative Title: Matadero cinco, Slachthuis 5, Кланица 5, Matadouro 5, Matadouro Cinco
Director: George Roy Hill
Writer: Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Stephen Geller
Production & Genre
Producer: Producer: George Roy Hill, Paul Monash
Executive Producer: Jennings Lang
Companies: Universal Pictures, Vanadas Productions
Genre: Comedy, Comedy Film, Drama, Film Based On Literature, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Comedy, Science Fiction Film, Speculative Fiction Film, War
Budget: 3.200.000
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Keywords
Keywords: alien civilization, based on novel or book, dresden, germany, husband wife relationship, prisoner of war, time travel, war crimes, world war ii
Story
Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran and optometrist from New York, finds himself inexplicably jumping back and forth in time due to his experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden during the bombing in February 1945. He travels between three distinct periods: his early childhood memories, his life after the war with his wife Valencia, and his mysterious abduction by aliens from Tralfamadore who keep him in a zoo.
Summary
Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 film directed by George Roy Hill, loosely based on Kurt Vonnegut's semiautobiographical novel of the same name. The movie explores Billy Pilgrim's fragmented reality and his coping mechanisms for surviving the trauma he witnessed during the Dresden bombing. The film blends comedy with themes of war, time travel, and alien encounters to illustrate Billy's disjointed perspective.
