Movie Settings Database

Rock the Casbah

Where:

🇵🇸 Palestine

When:

The 1980s

A unit of new recruits sent to patrol Gaza during the First Intifada in 1989. A washing machine is deliberately pushed from the roof of a building as the patrol moves past, killing one of the soldiers. The perpetrator cannot be found. Four of the young soldiers are assigned to uncomfortable, boring, surveillance duty atop the roof, interacting with the Arab family that lives in the building.

Released in 2012 — 93 minutes

Genre:

Drama

Language:

Hebrew