"MOONLIGHTING" "Original screenplay by" "Directed by" "All passengers of LOT flight from Warsaw to London are requested immediately to go to passport control and custom clearance." "All passengers of LOT flight from Warsaw to London are requested immediately to go to a customs clearance and passport control." "Before we left customs checked all our luggage." "That bag contained hammers drills and an axe." "Today is 5th of December, 1981." "Warsaw black market exchanges 1,13 pounds for 1000 zlotys." "An average weekly wage." "I landed in London with 1,200 pounds in my pocket." "It sounds that would have taken 25 years to earn." "The purpose of our trip to London is buying a second hand car." "It was very difficult to disguise the weight of our hand luggage." "As my men didn't know a single word of English," "I would have to speak for them all." "The purpose of our visit to London is buying a second hand car." "How many are there of you?" "We are... four... people." "I have the passports." "How much money do you have with you?" "1200 pounds." "Where would you be staying?" "We are staying in a flat in Onslow Gardens, 5." "It is a friend of my wife's..." "You must make absolutely sure... that your friends understand exactly what it is about." "'Leave to remain in the United Kingdom, unconditional of the hold that is not engaged employment, paid or unpaid, and is not engaged in any business or profession is hereby given for one month.'" "Do you understand, Mr. Nowak?" "Nowak." "Yes, I understand." "Thank you." "Mr. Poljski?" "Mr. Banazak?" "Banaszak." "Mr. Kuday?" "Kudaj." "Are you a member of "Solidarity"?" "No." "That was the only true answer I gave." "Here, wait here." "Where did you get those trolley, please?" "Take this..." "Thank you, bless you." "Banaszak, you idiot!" "It's Mr Banaszak for you!" "NOTHING TO DECLARE" "Today's Times, page 5:" "'At the concert in Warsaw in an ice hockey stadium last night" "American pop star, Tina Turner was determined that politics' been left alone despite the current climate of freedom." "So that the Poles could concentrate on her athletic charms and golden micro-skirt." "However, the audience began to warm up when they realized that her song titles could conceal political meaning.'" ""What do you want?" she asked, suggestively." ""Food!" shouted the audience." ""What do you need?" she repeated provocatively." ""Dollars!"" "We were there only last night." "The boss took us and his wife as a treat." "Anna was sitting between the boss and me." "That's another 2 bucks for the luggage." "Oh, good morning!" "Can I help you?" "Yes, I have this..." "Well, that's fine." "Just get the key." "Be careful." "Put it there!" "Here we are." "Two keys." " Two keys for one door?" " I'm sure you'll manage." "Nice to see you." "It's my pleasure to meet you." "Banaszak, you idiot." "No smoking inside, clear?" "I made it clear." "No smoking." "I hate the smell of cigarettes." "Nice view, isn't it?" "Me here, you there." "Ladies!" "Don't settle anything but the real thing." "Spaghetti rigatoni in a traditional blue paper pack, at Delicatessen." "Don't hesitate." "Only 38p." "Ladies!" "That your husband come home tired and irritable?" "2.40 pounds in our off licence." "Look at there, how many goods." "Mr. Nowak, Mr. Nowak." "Coca-Cola, Mr. Nowak." "Yes, it is." "Rita, wow much is the Kitty Cat, turkey flavour?" "Twenty-six pence, I think." "You're intending to pay for the goods hidden in your handbag, madam?" " Oh, I didn't really mean..." " Our policy prosecute shoplifters." " Please, don't do that." " Follow me to the manager's office!" "Please, I was going to put it back." "I did not mean to take..." "It happens all the time." "This way, this way, officer." " Where can I leave them?" " Over there." " Banaszak." " Yes?" "Open it." "Nowak." "Cups!" "Banaszak, careful." "Remove this and that." "Keep those two." "Banaszak?" "Herr Schreiber?" "Yes, Nowak's speaking." "From London." "Yes, yes." "0...0...0...2..." "X" "Yes." "Hello, Herr Schreiber!" "Yes..." "Moment..." "It was as simple as the boss said." "The line from Warsaw was better than in Warsaw." "If our conversation was taken it must be a good recording." "I had confirmed that everything was ok." "Still the boss insisted that all details should go into his black notebook." "'Just for the record', he said." "Stop, stop." "As instructed by the boss, 'Knocking down the walls until 8pm'." "'Selecting usable materials until 11pm'." "To bed at midnight." "The men are not to know what I know." "That by sending working hours from Poland and paying our wages in zloty." "Our boss can have his London house done for a quarter of what he would have to pay a British builder." "Don't they ever wonder why the boss is prepared to pay for month's hard work what it would take us to earn in Warsaw?" "And the bonus of 20 pounds each when the job is done?" "The magic of hard currency." "Our boss is a of the few in Poland who has dollars." "Sleep well, Anna." "Sunday Mass at the Polish church." "That's for 20 pence each to come out of the entertaining money." "20 pounds for entertainment." "Nearly one pounds gone already." "And the evening out the rest will easily gone." "I had a better idea with others." "Kudaj was against." "Can I help you?" "Nice set." "Only 50 pounds Very cheap." "40 pounds it's all I have." "40 pounds?" "Fully guaranteed, 26" coloured TV." "I can see you have a nice sense of humour, but let us be serious." "40, without guarantee?" "Cash?" "40 pounds..." "No guarantee, no aerial." "40, without the guarantee but with the aerial." "40, without the guarantee but with aerial." "No plug!" "To buy it I added my 20 pounds bonus to the entertainment fund." "Anna has been asking me for a coloured TV." "There." "Yeah, good!" "Give me that." "Come on." "Fucking TV!" "Be careful." "I will repair the TV in Warsaw." "All the better." "Not time will be wasted." "I can see you've been working hard, there." "Sunday or no Sunday?" "Oh, it's perfectly all right with I'm just curious..." "I only hope the other residents weren't complain." " You don't mind?" " No, no, I don't mind." "It was very like my boss in Warsaw." "Even dresses like that." "Oh, yes." "He always comes around on Sunday." ""When the cat's away..."" "Wait, I'll try." "People cannot have peace here." "That's better!" "Almost acceptable." "I can speak their language." "This is why the boss chose me for the job." "But I do not know what they really mean." "Here sign it." "Thanks." "Damn." "Come on, boy." "So this isn't the only house full of rubbish around here." " Good morning." " Oh, good morning..." "I see some English work hard at night than the Poles on the Sunday." "Yes, quite..." "The copper pipe will be in tomorrow." "When?" "Tomorrow." "Trade?" "Mass electrician." "Trade or private?" "I almost forgot the business card the boss gave to get discount." "'Eagle Builders'?" "Anna's face could look at me from every shop window." "Wherever they sell those clothes." "Maybe I could involve that girl." "I have to go that way for get the pipe, anyway." "The girl seemed to be nice." "Girls are always attracted to men who have pretty women." "Oh, damn it." "The photograph." "Can I help you, sir?" "I'm just looking around." "Thank you very much." "Good bye." "Excuse me." "I was..." "I was looking at you through the window yesterday." "Can I help you?" "I have great publicity idea for Wrangler." "Look." "You see this poster here." "It's good." "That's too small." "It's a good poster." "But what about sweatshirts?" "Well, I have lots of sweatshirts if you want..." "Whenever I showed this photo to my friends in Poland, they say" "'Where did you get this sweatshirt?" "'" "Wouldn't it make a great Wrangler poster?" "It's very nice." "You want a sweatshirt for her?" "So much for day dreams." "Come here." "Stop and wait for my sign." "In the silence of the night a voice radiates:" "Stand up, shepherds, God is born for you!" "I was sure it was only 2:55, but Kudaj's watch said 3:10." "Is somebody phoned?" "Yes, indeed." "I just did." "It is working." "Whatever, I meant from Warsaw." "Yes." "Anna?" "Barbara?" "It's fine." "And well, he said, is going well here." "I hope you're and the kids keeping well." "I think about you all the time." "I wish I could be like him." "I can only think about Anna, all the time." "And I stop." "It's Nowak." "Three glasses of vodka she's had with the boss already." "How many more will they have?" "Why did you really choose me?" "They have agreed to miss church today." "We'd fall behind otherwise." "Am I soaked to Anna?" "I can't wait until Saturday." " Which country?" " Warsaw, Poland." "All the lines have being suspended." "Suspended." "Why?" " There was a military coup." " Coup?" "That's right." "Didn't you hear the news?" "I know." "I want to make an airline reservation for tomorrow to Warsaw." "I'm afraid sir, all air traffic to Poland has been stopped." "Until when?" "No idea sir." "I'm afraid we are just as much in the dark about what's happening there as anybody else." "Sorry, sir." "How will you take the news, Banaszak?" "No more phone calls from Barbara." "No flights home until, God knows when." "Or boss..." "Only me." "Oh, God damn it." "I don't know what happened." "I'm not afraid, I'm quite calm." "I think as I had not a clear thought since yesterday." "Government proclamation banned the wide range of civil liberties." "From 22 am to 6 pm a curfew was introduced." "Polish soldiers patrol the streets of Warsaw, telephone and telex lines were cut off the world yesterday." "They sleep soundly." "They don't know." "Let them sleep." "Two for Banaszak." "He likes his coffee strong." "Wake up." "Wake up." "Wake up." "Hey..." "Have you seen the news in the paper?" "Please, go away." "It must been extremely shocking what is happening in Poland..." "Yes, it's very upsetting." "Go back to work." "Go back." "Your damn umbrella, asshole." "Why are you doing that?" "There's too much on there pal." "Remove it!" "This is not my rubbish." "You paid 40 for one load, not for six." "Get some of them rid of." "But it was the neighbours here..." "They are obliged driving like that." "If I go up the road, I'll get nicked." "Get it off!" "I have enough of you, people." "I was shaving me I looked down and everything was here." "It's not my rubbish!" "Get your own skip!" "Get your own skip!" "You lazy, scrappy..." "Rat faced, bagger." "Just because you come to this area to work you have no right to do whatever you want." "Poles are told by the authorities the West is reacting calmly to the weekend crack down." "Those who believed martial law will bring a political earthquake everywhere and we were disappointed, said the Warsaw Television report." "The broadcast said" "Western states and influential propaganda centers have adopted a reserved attitude respond to events in Poland." "I am sure the boss will take care of Anna." "Unless he's been locked up." "Excuse me, sir." "This is not your paper." "This is yours." "Sorry." "For the first time, the authorities admitted that there were wounded" "Last night 7 workers were killed and 39 wounded in a clash south of the country," "A journalist in uniform said:" ""The soldiers had no choice," "They were under attack and forced to shoot..." "I must to concentrate on work, I must drive them harder." "Stabilizers should have been arrived yesterday." "We must start the plumbing tomorrow." "3 days without water." "It won't be easy." "I must allowed to use the bath." "I'll tell them now." "Concrete cells, no furniture, no food, nor water no toilets, nor heating." "Who smoked?" "All I could say was, 'Who smoked?" "'." "Very, very pretty watches." " You like the black one?" " Beautiful, beautiful." " Yes, that's it." " I know, Banaszak." " Ready?" " Yes." "Nowak..." "Nowak." "Help!" "Help!" " Cut off the water!" " Hurry up!" " Nowak!" "Bring a box!" "A plank would be better." "Faster!" "This should have been a great day for us." "All the new joints leaked." "Neither I nor Banaszak knew what had happened." "One day passed and I don't know what to do." "That made them to forget the weekend phone call." "CLOSED" "I'll have to wait until Monday to find out what happened with joints." "I said that everything at home was all right." "The wives send their love," "Banaszak's wife wants some Aspirin." "They will all ring again next Saturday." "I think they believed me." "This is not true" "I never finish a job." "That I always fail." "Not this time I'll show them!" "Anna... the boss... 72 pounds for new joints." "He said, we must had overheated them." "There's no way I can find 72 pounds." "No more beer, but I cannot cut down on food." " Pack those two." " Have you paid for them, madam?" "That's the second time I have been asked that." "I certainly have." "Can I see your receipt, madam?" "That's ok." "So that's it." "With the receipt you're ok." "May I have a carrier bag?" "Ok." "Let's turn it on!" "That's perfect." "Right, it works." "Good job, Banaszak." "He will have to work 18 hours a day now to finish the job." "I'll pay them with food, they can take home." "They slept 3 hours after working whole night." "To make them feel better I'll tell them it was five." "The only watch that works now is mine." "Legia!" "It is Christmas Eve and they have not slept for three nights." "I can't make a mistake now." "Our Christmas will be ruined." "Excuse me." "I bought this turkey here this morning." "My friends also have a turkey." "Is it possible to take it back from me?" "I have to ask the manager." "Please, wait a minute." " What is the problem?" " This gentleman, sir." "How can I help you, sir?" "I bought this here some time ago." "It's a turkey." "My friends also bought one." "May I return it?" "Can I have a word with you?" " Did your friends buy the other turkey here?" " No." "Why they don't return theirs?" "Theirs is fresh." "This is frozen." "Actually sir, there is no policy to make refunds." "Let me see the receipt, sir." "They tell me it's Christmas..." "Rita, would you give 7.50 pounds back to this gentleman?" "You have been having a late lunch, sir." "These things take 24 hours to defrost." "Merry Christmas to you." " Sir." "It's yours." " Yes." "Merry Christmas!" "'Quite life'... or 'Sleep Complete'?" " Which is the cheaper?" " 'Quite life'." "Did I leave the door open?" "Kudaj?" "Banaszak?" "Wolski?" "There's no time for that!" "Go back to work." "There's no time for that." "Go back to work." " Work, work!" " No need to shout like that." " Now, let's..." " Let's take o toast." "Take some turkey." "Pour!" " Cheers!" " Turkey is really good." "We've all worked right through Christmas." "On Saturday, 26th... we are waiting for telephone calls from Warsaw." "Which I knew would never come." "Nowak!" "Hurry!" "Nowak!" "Help!" "You are a damn electrician." "Banaszak, idiot." "Get back to work." "That damn Kudaj was still waiting to talk to his wife." "Enough time has been wasted." "Warsaw, no telephone." "Poland, no exist." "'Solidarity', kaput!" "It is quite clear for me... from now on, it is the only safe place for them." "Excuse me, sir." "Did you just get those goods here?" " Yes." " Have you paid for them?" " Of course." " May I see your receipt?" "I left my gloves on the fridge I had to come back." "I see." "I just check the goods anyway." "Only two loads this time." "One I paid for." "And I better not come back for a couple of days." "From Poland, Eugeniusz Kudaj." "From his wife." "Censored." "Spaghetti, underwear, sweatshirts..." "Save on carpenter delivery... stole several underwear." "Time for your spaghetti, Mrs. Kudaj!" "Excuse me, sir." "Your gloves!" "The manager would like to see you." "This way, please." "Well, you are our regular customer, sir." "My supervisor noted you come quite often." "You do not spend a great deal but you do come here a lot." " Living nearby, don't you?" " Yes." "You always use your bike when you are coming." "What did you want to ask me?" "Just how did you enjoy your friends' turkey, sir?" "It was ok." "When my supervisor told me about you another day, I understood." "The man who always leaves his gloves." "Do you mind if I see your bicycle, sir?" " It is your bike, sir?" " Yes." "Very nice." "It's very nice." "So this is it, Mrs. Rostrum?" "You took, your bloody time, don't you?" "350 yards plain flooring." "Cash on delivery!" "Cash on delivery." "302 pounds." "I've been left with 70 pounds now." " Remember me?" " Yes..." "I bought these sweatshirts sometime ago." "Oh, yes." "Is anything wrong?" "The size." "I need bigger." "Happy New Year!" "Same to you." "I do not want to confess I no longer believe in God." "I am here to find my self-respect." "I chose these men because they were stupid" "I thought I could control them." "But I can't." "I am weaker than they are." "Take off your coats and get back to work." "We're going to a church." "I forgot it's New Year." "They should go to the Polish church." "But the risk is too great." "What's going on?" "This and this and this and go to work!" "I should have seen it's coming." "They have had about enough." "I have to get them back to work." "Whatever the priest says..." "Nice shirt." "They accepted the deal but they want their bonus and shopping tomorrow." "20 pounds each." "I still need that money for deposit to hire the sander." "What time is it?" "There are flights to Warsaw now." "We've booked on Tuesday morning." "It's our last Saturday." "What if the telephone rings now?" "We can't wait about much longer." "They want to buy those bloody watches this afternoon." "But what if the phone rings now?" "Fucking phones." "Let's go." "Airline tickets to Poland?" "You must be joking." "No deposit, no sander." "What about our passports?" "We cannot go anywhere without them." "We have to go home on Tuesday." "You wanna go back on Tuesday, that's your look out." "No deposit, no sander." "How much was it exactly?" "60 deposit and 8.60 per day, plus V.A.T." "that's 69.89." "He gave away our bonus." "Thief." "He called me thief." "They'll have to let me in, sooner or later." "They will realize unless the sander will be returned, they will never get their money back." "They can't manage without me." "They need me." "Bring that machine." "Let's go." "They told me, I am free to do as I like." "They don't want to re-told what to do anymore." "Let them try!" "You can't do that." "Banaszak, give me that!" "I can take care of it on my own." "You can do what you'd like in your own country." "But if you do not stop that noise now..." "I call the police!" "Go back to Poland, you, you... you Communists!" "Good morning." "He had this machine." "Oh, ok." "The manager is here." "What is that bloody early?" "Anyway, you are going back tomorrow." "Can I take off my coat?" "60 quid deposit, right?" "Bye." "They just discovered that their new toys make no sound." "They have no more use for me." "They want to finish the job on their own." "The boss will have his London refuge if he ever gets out." "What am I doing here with 5 pence in my pocket," "And no present for Anna?" "48 pounds." "She would like that." "He has probably worked here for years." "He must know all the tricks." "I don't stand the chance." "Well done." "You didn't even take the price tag off." "What am I so worried about?" "The scarf." "The scarf you took from here." "Yes, my scarf." "I took from there." "I left it at the counter." "Tuesday, 5th January, 1982, 2 am." "All we have left is my 5 pence." "And 6 hours walk to Heathrow Airport." "Now I cannot delay it any longer." "I must tell them the truth, what has happened in our country." "God, help me!" "Transcribed by mitbrille Karagarga@2013"