Moonlighting

Name: Moonlighting
Genre: Drama
Released: 1982-09-26
Duration: 1 h 37 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jiří Stanislav, Eugeniusz Haczkiewicz, Denis Holmes

Moonlighting (1982)

1:37 (97 min)

Drama

United Kingdom

7.2/10
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Actors and characters

Watch film Moonlighting — Moonlighting (1982) Original Trailer [HD]

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Production

Michael White Productions, Film4 Productions

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Director

Scenario

Composer

Producer

Actors

Nowak

Banaszak

Jiří Stanislav

Wolski

Eugeniusz Haczkiewicz

Kudaj

Denis Holmes

Neighbor

David Calder

Supermarket Manager

Trevor Cooper

Hire Shop Man

David Gant

Aquascutum Assistant

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Short description

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

What's left behind the scenes

A more accurate translation of the title is “Left Work”.
The film is the director Jerzy Skolimowski’s political response to the sudden imposition of martial law in his native Poland, following the Solidarity trade union’s uprising in December 1981.