“Let Me Put My Head Down On A Dune,” is the theme song from filmmaker Assi Dayan’s classic 1976 hit movie Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona.
The film is a prime example of the “burekas films” genre, popular in the 1960s–1980s, that featured comedy and high drama in exaggerated extremes. The song is performed by the members of the popular music and comedy trio Hagashash Hahiver (literarily “the pale scout”), who also star in the film, which casts a satiric spotlight on IDF reserve duty in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War.
Burekas films hold a special place in the collective Israeli psyche. People love them for how silly and outrageous they can be, and Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona is one of the most-loved of the genre. Millions of Israelis watch it every year on Yom Ha’atzmaut.
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