It stars Ze'ev Revach, Assi Dayan, Carlo De Mejo, Daniele Dublino and Franco Giornelli.
[1] The docu-drama style film follows the Six-day War between Egypt and Israel, primarily as seen from the Israeli perspective.
The story line jumps between locations in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and the Sinai desert.
Meanwhile, his civilian counterpart Ylan (Carlo de Mejo), the son of a shipbuilder, lives the life of a playboy at the poolside, before joining his battalion.
[2] In a scene later copied in American Graffiti two cars charge head on at each other in a game of chicken watched by a crowd of teenagers.
Alek and Laila search for their boyfriends from a helicopter, viewing the devastation of burned out vehicles along the road.
One of the men who can speak Arabic removes his Israeli uniform and acts as a decoy to put another guard out of action.
Ylan and another mount a heavy machine gun on a jeep and play chicken with the remaining armoured car, driving it back.