The lost movies of Andrei Tarkovski

Images from Midjourney, text by GPT-3. Prompt in bold.

The Breaded (1972)

The movie starts when a strange substance resembling breadcrumbs starts falling from the sky like snow. Soon, people start to get breaded, as if they were chickens. They become obsessed with the breading, and start to fight over it.

As the breading covers the world, people start to go crazy. They start to eat the breading, even though it doesn't taste good. They become addicted to it, and start to bread each other.

The breading is everywhere, and it's driving people mad. Soon, they start to bread themselves, and the world descends into madness.

The Time was Then (1976)

This movie tells the story of a group of scientists who regret that they had the chance to save the world but didn't, as they await inevitable death. The movie opens with a group of scientists in a laboratory. They are discussing the fact that they had the opportunity to save the world but didn't, and now it is too late. They believe that the end is near, and they will all die soon. However, one of them decides to try and change things. He travels back in time to try and warn people about the impending doom, but no one will listen to him. In the end, he returns to his own time just as the world ends. Although he was unable to save the world, the scientist is content knowing that at least he tried. The movie is a contemplation on regret, missed opportunities, and what could have been.

Bad Dimensions (1979)

Bad Dimensions is a russian sci-fi movie about a group of people who find themselves in a parallel world that is the result of a scientific experiment gone wrong. The movie follows their attempts to return to their own world, while also exploring the implications of this new reality. 

The movie was directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and stars Natalya Bondarchuk, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Nikolai Grinko, and Anatoli Solonitsyn. 

Bad Dimensions is a thought-provoking and visually stunning movie that will leave you questioning the nature of reality.

Stunned Iris (1980)

The movie is about a woman named Iris who can see the future. But her ability to see the future comes at a cost. She is constantly tormented by visions of the future, and she is never sure if what she is seeing is real. 

Her only relief comes from a man named Dima, who she meets in a strange dream. Dima helps her to understand her gift, and together they try to find a way to change the future. 

The movie is a fascinating exploration of the nature of fate, and how our choices can influence the future. It is also a tragedy, as Iris's ability to see the future leads her to make a decision that has devastating consequences.

Comrades from the Zone (1974)

The movie follows a group of soldiers as they arrive at the site of a Soviet military base in the Urals. They are the first people to step in the Zone, a desert devoid of people or life in the middle of the Ural Mountains. A strange force draws them into the desolate region and slowly begins to corrupt them.

The film was banned by the Soviet authorities, and it never premiered until now,

The Soviet secret service and the KGB have only managed to get hold of the film's negatives. In 1991 a new law was introduced by the government to give the people the right to watch movies that have been forbidden for 25 years, and this is a film from 1974 which hasn't been screened since before the start of the Soviet Union.

Tarkovsky decided to make this movie without the permission of the authorities, thus in the process he defied them and his movie was not made until now.