Tracing the thread…
His films like Stalker and The Mirror explore post-apocalyptic spiritual desolation and humanity's relationship with devastated landscapes.
Stanley Kubrick United StatesDr. Strangelove presents nuclear war as absurdist dark comedy, while A Clockwork Orange depicts dystopian societal collapse.
Akira Kurosawa JapanDreams and Ran both contain vivid sequences of nuclear and apocalyptic destruction reflecting Japan's post-war anxieties.