Yakatangwa Mutambo weMafirimu weRoma uye bheji rakasimba pasina mubvunzo kutariswa kwefirimu idzva na Francis Ford Coppola, "Youth Without Youth" (Youth without Youth), yakabva munyaya yakaitwa naMircea Eliade wekuRomania uye ane nyeredzi Tim Roth, uyo pano ari mudzidzisi weRomania anovandudzazve mushure mokunge arohwa nemheni.
Asi iyo firimu - umo Coppola inoratidzira nezvekuziva kwenguva uye mavambo emutauro 'a la Borges', sezvaakataura iye pachake - haana kusiya vanhu vakawanda vachigutsikana, kunyange zvazvo Coppola pachake akajekesa kuti «Haisi "Shrek" kana "Superman", iwe unofanirwa kuipa nguva uye mubhaisikopo iwe unofanirwa kutora njodzi nekuvandudza. Kana kuti 'Apocalypse Zvino' haina kunzwisiswa muzuva rayo'".
Mukuwedzera, akati "panoitwa firimu idzva, risiri kopi yeakatoitwa, zvinotora nguva kuti vanhu vasarudze kuti rakanaka here kana kuti rakaipa.«. Zvichakadaro, pamutambo mutero waibhadharwa Sophia Loren, uyo akagamuchira mubairo nokuda kwebasa rake.