Although it was a screen version of an earlier play, the movie has sometimes been cited as an example of the Bourekas film genre in Israel,Swedenburg.blogspot.com. a "peculiarly Israeli genre of comic melodramas or tearjerkers... based on ethnic stereotypes."And Then There was One, Uri Klein, Haaretz The term is said to have been coined by the Israeli film director Boaz Davidson, the creator of several such films, as a play on words on the "Spaghetti Western" genre, as spaghetti (a reference to the fact that these films were produced in Italy) was a type of food and Bourekas is an Israeli food, or at least a food that is now part of Israeli cuisine, brought in by immigrants from other countries."A Tasty Dish: Classic Israeli Movies," Jerusalem Post, November 23, 2010, Jpost.com. Bourekas is also puffy and airy, implying that a film of this genre has little if any serious content.
