Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five, motion picture about a man drifting through time, based on the 1969 novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Released in 1972, the film won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. An optometrist named Billy Pilgrim (played by Michael Sacks) visits his past and his future. He relives the bombing of Dresden, Germany, during World War II (1939-1945) and travels to the future, where he witnesses his own death.

Director

• George Roy Hill

Cast

• Michael Sacks (Billy Pilgrim)
• Ron Leibman (Paul Lazzaro)
• Eugene Roche (Edgar Derby)
• Sharon Gans (Valencia Merble Pilgrim)
• Valerie Perrine (Montana Wildhack)
• Roberts Blossom (Wild Bob Cody)
• Sorrell Booke (Lionel Merble)
• Kevin Conway (Weary)
• Gary Waynesmith (Stanley)
• John Dehner (Rumford)
• Stan Gottlieb (Hobo)
• Perry King (Robert Pilgrim)
• Frederick Ledebur (German leader)
• Nick Belle (Young German guard)
• Henry Bumstead (Eliot Rosewater)
• Lucille Benson (Billy's mother)
• Gilmer McCormick (Lily)
• Holly Near (Barbara)
• Richard Schaal (Campbell)
• Karl Otto Alberty (German guard)
• Tom Wood (Englishman)

Awards

• Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize (1972)