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Moonlighting (Original title)Blackout (Working title)Novack (Working title)
Dates: 1982 (Copyright), 26 September 1982 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Jerzy Skolimowski

Synopsis: Drama. Four Poles arrive in London to renovate a house owned by their boss, who remains in Poland. While in London, the military takeover happens. Nowak, the leader of the team knows of this but doesn't tell the others until they have finished the job and are returning to Poland.

Genre:
Drama

Subject:
Politics
Releases
Date: 26 September 1982not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Sound - MonoRuntime: 97 mins Length: 9742 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 2016Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 97 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (57)
©: Michael White Limited, Production Company: Channel Four, Presents: Michael White, Moonlighting was developed with the assistance of: N.F.D.F., [Executive Producer]: Michael White, Produced by: Mark Shivas, Jerzy Skolimowski, Associate Producer: Michael Guest, Production Accountant: Michael Brent, Location Manager: Rufus Andrews, Production Assistant: Lorraine Fennell, Runner: Nikolas Korda, 1st Assistant Director: Peter Cotton, 2nd Assistant Director: Nicholas Daubeny, 3rd Assistant Director: Rod Lomax, Continuity: Pat Rambaut, Casting: Debbie McWilliams, Original Screenplay by: Jerzy Skolimowski, Script Assistance by: Barrie Vince, Script Assistance by: Boleslaw Sulik, Script Assistance by: Danuta Stok, Witold Stok, Director of Photography: Tony Pierce Roberts, Camera Operator: Jimmy Stilwell, Camera Focus: Barry Brown, [Follow Focus, 2nd Camera]: Cedric James, Gaffer Electrician: Laurie Shane, Stills Photographer: Murray Tulip Close, David Farrell, Special Effects Supervisor: Roy Whybrow, Editor: Barrie Vince, Assistant Editor: Michael Connell, Assistant Editor: Andrew Stears, Assistant Editor: Jacques Leroide, Production Designer: Tony Woollard, Assistant Art Director: Peter Young, Production Buyer: Roma Aplin, Prop Master: Brian Gamby, Construction Manager: Bill Simpson, Costumes by: Jane Robinson, Wardrobe Mistress: Masada Wilmot, Make-up Artist: Sheila Thomas, Hairdresser: Marsha Lewis, Titles by: Advance Film Promotions, Film Processing by: Rank Film Laboratories, Music Composed by: Stanley Myers, Electronics by: Hans Zimmer, Sound Mixer: David Stevenson, Sound Assistant: Michael Tucker, Re-recorded at: World Wide Sound, Dubbing Mixer: Richard King, Dubbing Editor: Alan Bell, The producers would like to thank: Aquascutum, Publicist: Allen Burry, Camera Equipment by: Joe Dunton (Cameras) Ltd., Lighting Equipment by: Lee Electric (Lighting) Ltd.
Cast (31)
Jeremy Irons (Nowak), Eugene Lipinski (Banaszak), Jiri Stanislaw (Wolski), Eugeniusz Haczkiewicz (Kudaj), Dorothy Zienciowska (Lot Airline girl), Edward Arthur (immigration officer), Denis Holmes (neighbour), Renu Setna (junk shop owner), David Calder (supermarket manager), Judy Gridley (supermarket supervisor), Claire Toeman (supermarket cashier), Catherine Harding (lady shoplifter), Jill Johnson (haughty supermarket customer), David Squire (supermarket assistant), Mike Sarne (builder's merchant), Lucy Hornak, Robyn Mandell (Wrangler shop assistant), Ann Tirard (lady in telephone box), Christopher Logue (workman), Hugh Harper (newspaper boy), Julia Chambers (chemist's assistant), Fred Lee Own (Chinese man), Kenny Ireland (timber man), Trevor Cooper, Iain Ormsby-Knox (hire shop man), David Gant (Aquascutum assistant), Jennifer Landor (Aquascutum shoplifter), Jenny Seagrove (Anna), Jerzy Skolimowski (boss), Ian McCulloch (boss lookalike), Laura Frances Hart (the lookalike boss' woman)