Plot synopsis

In an unnamed town construction workers find an old cache of bombs of World War II. An army unit is dispateched to dispose the bombs. As exploding the bombs would inflict heavy damage on the town the army unit has to transport the bombs in a risky mission manually to a safe site. After the entire town is evacuated, the soldiers carry the bombs one by one to the safe site. Some of the bombs nearly explode, and in one scene an heroic soldier grabs a bomb and jumps from a truck to save the other soldiers. The film ends with the popoulation returning to the town and the simultaneous explosion of the bombs at the safe site.
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Commentaries and bibliography

Les courts métrages d’Andreï Tarkovski, Julien MORVAN, perestroikino.fr, 2020

Il n'y aura pas de départ aujourd'hui [Andrei Tarkovski]. Analyse et critique, Jean Gavril SLUKA, dvdclassik.com, 2012

Il n'y aura pas de départ aujourd'hui de Andreï Tarkovski, Ciné-club de Caen,

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Andrey Tarkovsky retrospective at the Cinémathèque française, Paris (France), 2017

- FEMA / La Rochelle International Film Festival, La Rochelle (France), 2017

- Cinémathèque de Toulouse : Tarkovski et autres poètes du cinéma soviétique, Toulouse (France), 2014

- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2010

- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2008