Slaughterhouse-Five
Billy Pilgrim lives —from time to time to time…
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
Timing:
1:40 (100 min)
6.5/10
208
208
6.848/10
2156
2156
6.8/10
15000
15000
Country
Production
Genre
Drama, Science Fiction, War
Budget
$3 200 000
Revenue
$0
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
George Roy Hill, Paul Monash, Jennings Lang
Operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Marion Dougherty
Editing
Short 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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film was shot in the United States in the state of Minnesota and in Czechoslovakia in Prague.
- The famous phrase “And so it goes” appears over 100 times in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s (1922-2007) novel (1969), but is not spoken at all in this film adaptation.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., the author of the literary source material, was a prisoner of war during World War II. He was captured on December 22, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, while serving as a scout in the 106th Infantry Division. The same fate befalls the book's protagonist, who is sent to a concentration camp by the Germans. Among other things, Vonnegut survived the bombing of Dresden and also described it in his novel.
- Shortly before the bombing of Dresden, a Howard Campbell Jr. addresses the American prisoners of war. In 1961, Vonnegut wrote the novel “Mother Night,” centering around this character, and later Kit Gordon filmed a movie (1996) based on it starring Nick Nolte.
- When Billy’s mother visits him in the hospital, she talks about what he experienced in Dresden with Eliot Rosewater. This is the hero of Vonnegut’s 1965 novel “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine,” who was later played by Ken Hudson Campbell in Alan Rudolph’s comedy “Breakfast of Champions” (1999).
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