Slaughterhouse-Five

1972 · 100 min · EN · R · 6.5 (271 votes)

Dir. George Roy Hill · Starring Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine, Holly Near

“Billy Pilgrim lives —from time to time to time…”

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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.

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A deeply unsettling and surreal journey through a fractured psyche. It's a disorienting, melancholic, and haunting experience that questions the nature of time and trauma, leaving you with a profound sense of existential dread.

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