Vonnegut wrote all about a film shortly fallowing its release, within his prolusion to Between Time and Timbuktu: A film won a Prix du Jury at a 1972 Cannes Film Festival, as well as a Hugo Award. Two Hill & Geller were nominated for awards by their various social club.

Sacks plays Billy Pilgrim, the film's protagonist. A film occurs as faithful (& successful) condensation of Vonnegut's novel, presented through Pilgrim's eyes. Pilgrim becomes "unstuck in time" & lives the cases of his life around the seemingly-random choose (an neutering of a story's chronology that pre-dates by concluded twenty years a apply of that system within Pulp Fiction). A cases require place throughout his life, by using particular emphasis in his lives when you took World War II alongside fellow prisoners of war Edgar Derby (played by Roche) and a psychopathic Paul Lazzaro (played by Leibman). His life when a married man to Valencia (played by Gans), & father to Barbara & Robert (played, severally, by Nigh & King) come too depicted, as it survive & another time possibly enjoy their life of richness inside Ilium, New York. The "sink-or-swim" scene by having Pilgrim's father is too featured.

Virtually all unusual come a scenes of Pilgrim's extraterrestrial life in Tralfamadore, with Hollywood starlet & fellow abductee Montana Wildhack (play by Perrine). However these are a bombing of Dresden in World War II which serves as a critical event motivating a themes of the film as a whole.

Differences from the novel
Additionally to a inevitable condensation, there are a total of differences between a novel & the film, including the charted: a opening scene, where the camera typically focuses in a letter Pilgrim is entering to the editor of the local newspaper, is non from either the novel. The recurrent "insects in amber" analogies are missing. Pilgrim's abduction scene is different & hanker in the novel. Details missing include a war film he watches backwards (due over again to existence undone eventually), & a appearance of the flying saucer, said to be C feet from side to side, using purple weak plusating around a saucer's portholes along a rim. Derby's execution in a film happens immediately fallowing he innocently will require the little porcelain statuette from either among the ruins of Dresden. In the novel, he is sham test number 1, & is executed for ingesting the teapot. the scene that sets higher the signficance of the statuette, inside which Derby hat mentions such a statuette in a letter to his married woman, is besides unique to the film. Two characters in the novel, Kilgore Trout and Vonnegut himself, are missing from either a film.

Music
Slaughterhouse-5 is the number 1 of deuce feature films for which Glenn Gould supplied the music. In that experience these are in the form of needle drops from his Bach catalog, including Goldberg Variations Variation 18 (Canone alla sesta), and the performance recorded merely for the film of the third ("Presto") movement from either Brandenburg Concerto #4 in G major.

Trivia
John Dehner has a scene as an chesty prof writing just about Dresden (& uninterested inside hearing Pilgrim's number 1-hand lives. A scenes placed around Dresden were filmed in Prague.