In the early 1990s, Michael Sopkiw - by now retired from acting and living in Manhattan Beach, California - decided to visit a local video rental store. He was instantly recognized by a clerk who declared himself a huge fan of 2019: After the Fall of New York and admirer of Sopkiw's short career. That clerk was Quentin Tarantino.
The weapons used by the white-suited guards of the "American" government look exactly like the weapon that Jane Fonda used in Barbarella (1968) (Ii even featured on some of the posters).