Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) on Netflix
Billy Pilgrim is a prisoner of war in Dresden and an optometrist in upstate New York. He has become unstuck in time, sliding between those lives and a distant planet called Tralfamadore.
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Plot summary
Serving in Belgium during World War II, the young soldier Billy Pilgrim is captured by the Germans and held as a prisoner of war in Dresden, where he meets the older POW Edgar Derby and the fellow prisoner Paul Lazzaro. He is also an optometrist in Ilium, New York, married to Valencia Merble, with two children, Robert and Barbara. At another point he is taken to Tralfamadore, a distant planet, and put on display there with the film actress Montana Wildhack. The Tralfamadorians, who live in a fourth dimension, tell him the universe is a string of moments, and Billy writes a letter to the Ilium Daily News describing his situation.
Cast
- Sharon Gansas Valencia Merble Pilgrim
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
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- Kurt Vonnegut, who wrote the novel, said George Roy Hill and Universal Pictures made "a flawless translation" of Slaughterhouse-Five to the silver screen: "I drool and cackle every time I watch that film, because it is so harmonious with what I felt when I wrote the book."
- Slaughterhouse-Five won the Jury Prize at the 25th Cannes Film Festival, where it was also nominated for the Palme d'Or, and went on to take a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the inaugural Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film. Sacks was nominated for a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer.
