Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

Directors

George Roy Hill

Cast

Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine

The story

In Ilium, New York, the middle-aged Billy Pilgrim writes a letter to the editor claiming to have become "unstuck in time"; he finds himself as a young man behind enemy lines in Belgium during World War II, where he and some other American troops are captured by the Germans. A fellow prisoner of war, Paul Lazzaro, develops a grudge against Billy and vows to kill him; at a camp, Lazzaro attacks Billy but is intercepted by an older POW, Edgar Derby. Billy and Derby develop a friendship.

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