The sacrifice (1986) by Andrei Tarkovski.
“Tarkovski is a miracle. Bergman told it before me, Tarkovksi made a thing like no one before him. There is a thing about the representation of fantasies, the representation of the imaginary and the representation of what is supposed to be real. All the levels are dealt with equally. Images, which would we be dealt with by everyone else as dreamlike elements, are dealt with as if they came from the reality of the action. Images you can not classify. Tarkovski erased the comforting frontiers of representation. It’s an idea of cinema I’m willing to fight for.”

Synopsis: On a small, remote island, where friends and family gather for drama critic Alexander’s (Erland Josephson) birthday celebration. The revelry is interrupted by a radio announcement: World War III has begun, and Mankind is only hours away from utter annihilation…

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Hugo Santiago was born in Buenos Aires, in 1939. He has lived in France since 1959. After studying literature, philosophy and music, he went on to work as assistant director (notably to Robert Bresson, from 1959 to 1966) and as a director of the theatre. Invasion was his first feature film, co-written with Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges in 1969. His second feature film, The Others was presented at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. Hugo Santiago has worked for cinema as well as television. He directed among other things an adaptation of Electre, The Life of Galileo and also many works about music.