Based on the novella "Men in the Sun" by Ghassan Kanafani, who was assassinated by Mossad in 1972. Kanafani had served as the spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Ranked #10 on the Dubai International Film Festival's "100 Greatest Arab Films" list, which was compiled for the 2013 book "Cinema of Passion".
Although the film was produced in the 1970s and the novella on which it is based was written in the 1960s, the story is set in the 1950s.
Produced by the Syrian National Film Organization, filmed in both Iraq and Syria, directed by an Egyptian, and based on a Palestinian novella.
The film was produced by the Syrian government's National Film Organziation, after the director, Tewfik Saleh, failed to receive approval for the project in his native Egypt.