DramaSci-FiWar
Theatrical March 15, 1972
Slaughterhouse-Five poster

Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

Slaughterhouse-Five is a book-based movie adapted from "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut. This Drama/Sci-Fi film is a direct adaptation, and its release date is March 15, 1972.

The Source Material

Slaughterhouse-Five

The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death

by Kurt Vonnegut

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Overview

Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what…

About The Movie

Description

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.

Details

Title
Slaughterhouse-Five
Original Title
Slaughterhouse-Five
Original Language
EN
Genres
Drama, Sci-Fi, War
US Theatrical
March 15, 1972 · Rated R