moonlighting

Director: jerzy skolimowski

Actor: jeremy irons,eugene lipinski,jirí stanislav,eugeniusz haczkiewicz

Data Published: Sun Sep 26 1982

Genres: Drama

Key Words: british renaissance,immigrant,immigration,poland,solidarity

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084354/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlighting_(film)

Description: Moonlighting is a movie starring Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, and Jirí Stanislav. A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons)...

Plot: Arriving in London from Warsaw in December 1981 are master electrician Nowak, who understands the language but not the inhabitants, with three workmen who know no English. Their task is to gut and renovate a house, for which they have brought what tools they can carry, while Nowak has cash to buy materials. Since the whole operation is illegal, Nowak keeps them working indoors while he goes out to get food and supplies. As his money runs out, he takes to stealing so that the four can survive. In the meantime, Poland is undergoing the traumas of demonstrations and strikes followed by the declaration of martial law, banning of Solidarity and mass arrests. All this Nowak conceals from the men, in order to finish the job. With no money left, they have a six-hour walk to the airport and a flight home to an uncertain future.