The film's name is derived from the opening words of the Italian revolutionary song Bandiera Rossa, which is sung by the film's protagonists, Israeli and Egyptian soldiers wandering the Sinai Desert in the aftermath of the 1967 War.
Synopsis
The film takes place at the end of the Six-Day War in June 1967. Two Egyptian privates, Khaled (Salim Daw) and Rassan (Suheil Haddad), wander hopelessly in the Sinai desert. They seek to cross the Suez Canal and return safely home. Along their way, they encounter, among other things, a dead UN soldier whose jeep contains whiskey bottles which they use to quench their thirst and get drunk, and an IDF patrol which they join in their wanderings that takes on the quality of a surrealistic farce.
