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    EXCLUSIVE: Watch Kurt Vonnegut Recall Entering Dresden as a POW

    Jonny Diamond

    November 18, 2021, 9:00am

    Tomorrow sees the long-awaited premiere of Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time, a documentary about the life of one of America’s most beloved writers. Directed by Robert Weide and Don Argott, Unstuck in Time has been in the making for decades, and offers an intimate, in-depth portrait of the writer who left of us works of genius like Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Bluebeard, and the book that made his name, Slaughterhouse-Five. The exclusive clip below features Vonnegut recalling the moments he entered Dresden as a POW, an experience that would shape the rest of his life, and is at the heart of his writing.