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Gene Gutowski

Gene Gutowski

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Biography

Eugene (Gene) Witold Gutowski (born Witold Bardach; July 26, 1925 – May 10, 2016) was a Polish film producer who produced many of Roman Polański's films, including Repulsion (1965), Cul-de-Sac (1966), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), and The Pianist (2002).

Known For

The Pianist
8.4

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

The Pianist

2002
Repulsion
7.4

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

Repulsion

1965
The Fearless Vampire Killers
6.9

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

The Fearless Vampire Killers

1967
Cul-de-sac
6.7

On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.

Cul-de-sac

1966
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
6.3

Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

2008
The Adventures of Gerard
5.9

Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.

The Adventures of Gerard

1970
Romance of a Horsethief
4.0

Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the border of imperial Russia, have lived on horse-stealing, horse-trading and horse-smuggling. Life changes abruptly when a Russian garrison, commanded by Captain Stoloff, occupies the town and, in the name of the Czar, requisitions all the horses for the Russian-Japanese War. With no more horses to steal, Kifke cannot afford to marry Estusha and all the young men in the village are likely to be incorporated into the Russian army. This state of affairs cannot continue and Zavill will take care of things.

Romance of a Horsethief

1971
A British Horror Film
5.6

A documentary on the making of Roman Polanski's 1965 film "Repulsion," featuring interviews with Polanski, producer Gene Gutowski, and cinematographer Gil Taylor, among others.

A British Horror Film

2003
G.G. Passion
4.5

G.G. Passion is a successful pop star whose life is a whirlwind of adoring fans, beautiful women and expensive cars. But while he enjoys the fruits of his celebrity lifestyle, a secret group of observers is judging whether his fame and influence is beneficial to society as a whole.

G.G. Passion

1966
A Day at the Beach
4.8

Bernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What was supposed to be a day of fun at the seaside turns to dust as he drinks his way through a seaside resort community, trailing his little niece Winnie.

A Day at the Beach

1970
Dancing Before the Enemy: How a Teenage Boy Fooled the Nazis and Lived
N/A

Film producer Gene Gutowski (Repulsion, Cul-de-Sac, The Pianist) was fourteen years old when first the Soviets then the Nazis invaded his hometown of Lwow, Poland. With a combination of chutzpah, street smarts and an unflinching will to live, he spent the war flirting with danger as a teenage Jew hiding in plain site. Witnessing first-hand the unspeakable horrors of the Nazi occupation, frequently cheating death himself and losing his entire family in the process, Gutowski's story is ultimately one of hope. As recounted with humor and pathos to his son, filmmaker Adam Bardach, his remarkable survival tale represents a thumb of the nose at darkness and totalitarianism.

Dancing Before the Enemy: How a Teenage Boy Fooled the Nazis and Lived

2015
Two Gangsters and an Island
7.5

A short documentary about the making of the 1966 film 'Cul-de-sac'.

Two Gangsters and an Island

2003