Slaughterhouse-five /
Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time. An otherwise typical soldier in WWII, without warning, he jumps back and forth in his life with no control over where he is going next. Sometimes he is an ophthalmologist at home in suburbia; deep in World War II Europe, surviving the Allied bombing of Dresd...
| Uniform Title: | Slaughterhouse-five (Motion picture) |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
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Universal City, CA :
Universal Pictures,
1972.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Swank Digital Campus) |
| Summary: | Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time. An otherwise typical soldier in WWII, without warning, he jumps back and forth in his life with no control over where he is going next. Sometimes he is an ophthalmologist at home in suburbia; deep in World War II Europe, surviving the Allied bombing of Dresden; on the planet Tralfamadore, being held captive by aliens in an intergalactic zoo--accompanied by a porn star. In the end, he learns that the many tragic and sometimes funny ironies of life--the randomness of tragedy, the cruelty and senselessness of war, and man's complete lack of control over his fate--remain constant. |
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| Item Description: | Based on the novel "Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1972. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file, 104 min.) : sound, color |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: Rated R. |
| Awards: | Winner, George Roy Hill, of the Jury Prize at the 1972 Festival International du Film de Cannes. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Miroslav Ondricek ; film editor, Dede Allen ; music, Glenn Gould ; production design by Henry Bumstead. |