This was the first film I saw in the West after I fled Romania in 1979, in December in the city of Trieste, Italy, in a cinema with a thousand seats. I was overwhelmed by the greatness of this film and what was more explosive was the fact that I was the only spectator in the room. That shocked me. It was the first performance of the day at 11:00 am.
Outside in the shop windows there were about 10 posters promoting the film, over which the title OGGI was pasted on the diagonal. I ran into the refugee camp and announced this extraordinary film I had seen about the war in Viet Nam. Everyone asked me: What's the name of the movie. I answered them enthusiastically: OGGI. The next day we filled the van with 15 young people and went to town to see the movie. On the first street I saw a smaller cinema in which the OGGI movie was displayed and
cost only 5 thousand ITALIAN LIRAS compared to yesterday where I had paid 25 thousand Italian LIRA. As we wear poor, the price agreed to us, of course the cinemas of the Catholic Church with wooden chairs in Italy, where you pay only two thousand Italian lira, and we entered a room with about a hundred seats and a very small screen.
Start the movie with images I didn't recognize. They were naked women and continuous sex. Of course, the young people liked it. I don't even think to convince them to go out.
I later found out that OGGI means Today. And later I realized that the title of the movie was Apocalypse Now.