Moonlighting

Three Polish builders and their foreman, Nowak, (Jeremy Irons), the only one to speak English, enter Britain illegally to renovate the home of a rich fellow Pole. All goes according to plan, but it is December 1981, time of the military crackdown in Poland and Nowak, the only one to find out, decides not to tell the others. Things start to go badly wrong, the workers are restless, money begins to run out, and Nowak resorts to increasingly desperate measures to keep everything under control. A Cannes Film Festival award winner.

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Credits

director

Jerzy Skolimowski

co-producer

Jerzy Skolimowski

Mark Shivas

production company

Michael White

Centar Film

Duration

01:35:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1982

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

302798

Language

English

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Film festivals - France - Cannes - Awards

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Alien labor

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Alien labor

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Great Britain

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q2364520

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United Kingdom, 1982

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