The world after a nuclear disaster is one of the classical themes in science fiction film, which I am going to prove on the basis of Piotr Szulkin's films. In my paper I want to approach his work in the context of the so called "apocalyptic imagination". Introduced by David Ketterer, this conceptual category implies the presence of several "ingredients" in the work of art which, among others, suggest that "the destruction of an old world is set against the writer's of a new world. Secondly, satire comes up against a prophetic mysticism to provide a form of 'judgment'. Thirdly, the creation of purpose and meaning collides with the possibility of non-meaning and chaos". In Szulkin's films it is the second element of the apocalyptic imagination that takes a major role, as he balances prophetic statements with a satirical dimension, or, one even should say, with a kind of a political allegory, thanks to the rejection of a realist mode of presentation and emphasizing elements of grotesque in the way he presents a dystopian society.