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Slaughterhouse-Five

1972 · 100 min

A wistful, jumbled drift through a life's worst and strangest moments, funny and sad in the same breath.

Tagline
Billy Pilgrim lives —from time to time to time…
Overview
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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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • death
  • war
  • memory
  • fate
  • trauma
Places
  • big city
  • military
  • space
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror3
Humour5
Realism5
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness7
Complexity8
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, science fiction, war
Directed by
George Roy Hill
Written by
Stephen Geller
Starring
Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine, Holly Near, Perry King, Kevin Conway
Music
Glenn Gould
Cinematography
Miroslav Ondříček
Runtime
100 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English, German, Russian

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