Slaughterhouse-Five

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Country:United States of America

Director:George Roy Hill

Program:Parallel Pathways

Year: 
1972

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. George Roy Hill faithfully renders for the screen Kurt 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. Hill’s special penchant for self-realization through re-imagination, so prevalent in his other films, is an ideal complement to the material, making it one of his strongest and most ambitious statements.