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Gene Gutowski is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer Polonais born on 26 july 1925 at Lviv (Ukraine)

Gene Gutowski

Gene Gutowski
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Birth name Witold Bardach
Nationality Pologne
Birth 26 july 1925 at Lviv (Ukraine)
Death 10 may 2016 (at 90 years)

Gene Gutowski, born as Witold Bardach, (May 7, 1925 in Lwów, Poland (now Ukraine)) is most known as a Polish-American film producer having produced many of Roman Polanski's films.

Biography

Gene Gutowski est connu pour avoir produit ou coproduit certains films de Roman Polanski, notamment Répulsion, Le Bal des vampires et Le Pianiste.

Best films

The Pianist (2002)
(Co-Producer)
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
(Producer)

Usually with

Eli Wallach
Eli Wallach
(2 films)
Mark Burns
Mark Burns
(2 films)
Gérard Brach
Gérard Brach
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Gene Gutowski (8 films)

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Actor

Scriptwriter

The Adventures of Gerard, 1h31
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Mark Burns, John Neville
Rating49% 2.475242.475242.475242.475242.47524
Vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier, serves during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.

Producer

The Pianist, 2h24
Directed by Roman Polanski
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Musical
Themes French war films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about religion, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Piano, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Michał Żebrowski
Roles Co-Producer
Rating84% 4.2493854.2493854.2493854.2493854.249385
In September 1939, Władysław Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish-Jewish pianist, is playing live on the radio in Warsaw when the station is bombed during Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland which caused the outbreak of World War II. Hoping for a quick victory, Szpilman celebrates with his posh family at home when learning that Britain and France have declared war on Germany. German troops soon enter Warsaw and the Nazi authorities implement measures to identify, isolate, financially ruin and reduce the Jewish population in Warsaw. Jews are ordered to provide their own identifying armbands with the Star of David.
Romance of a Horsethief, 1h41
Directed by Abraham Polonsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Actors Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg, David Opatoshu, Henri Serre
Roles Producer
Rating51% 2.566832.566832.566832.566832.56683
In Polish Russia, Stoloff, a Cossack in exile has gained control over a Jewish village. The villagers live by horse-thievery and under the leadership of Kifke. Stoloff's regime is tolerated until he commandeers the village's horses for the Russian army. Naomi has been away in France and gotten ideas of a revolution and inspires the town to resist. This gets Naomi into deep trouble, from which only Kifke and his compatriot Zanvil can rescue her. Zanvil is highly motivated since he is in love with Naomi.
The Adventures of Gerard, 1h31
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Mark Burns, John Neville
Roles Producer
Rating49% 2.475242.475242.475242.475242.47524
Vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier, serves during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
A Day at the Beach, 1h33
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Mark Burns, Beatie Edney, Peter Sellers, Maurice Roëves, Jack MacGowran, Eva Dahlbeck
Roles Producer
Rating62% 3.139233.139233.139233.139233.13923
Set in a rundown Danish seaside resort, it depicts a day in the life of Bernie, a self-destructive alcoholic (played by Mark Burns), as he takes Winnie (Beatie Edney), a young girl with a leg brace, to the resort despite constant rain. Though Winnie calls Bernie "uncle," it is very likely he is her biological father. Over the course of the day, they encounter various people whom Bernie alternately berates and scams for alcohol, while Winnie is often left alone to fend for herself. Peter Sellers makes a cameo appearance as a gay shopkeeper who flirts with Bernie.
The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1h48
Directed by Roman Polanski
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Vampires in film, Comedy horror films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jack MacGowran, Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski, Ferdy Mayne, Sydney Bromley, Alfie Bass
Roles Producer
Rating69% 3.499233.499233.499233.499233.49923
The film is set in the heart of Transylvania and the story appears to take place sometime during the mid-19th Century. Professor Abronsius, formerly of the University of Königsberg and his apprentice Alfred are on the hunt for vampires. Abronsius is old and withering and barely able to survive the cold ride through the wintry forests, while Alfred is bumbling and introverted. The two hunters come to a small Eastern European town seemingly at the end of a long search for signs of vampires. The two stay at a local inn full of angst-ridden townspeople who perform strange rituals to fend off an unseen evil.
Cul-de-sac
Cul-de-sac (1966)
, 1h53
Directed by Roman Polanski
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Transgender in film, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran, Jacqueline Bisset, Iain Quarrier
Roles Producer
Rating69% 3.497383.497383.497383.497383.49738
The film begins with gruff American gangster Dickey pushing his broken-down car along a causeway through rising seawater while his eccentric companion Albie lies inside, bleeding from a gunshot wound after a bungled robbery. Cut off by the unexpected rising tide, they are on the only road to a bleak and remote tidal island (Lindisfarne in Northumberland), where, in a dark castle on a hilltop, a highly neurotic Englishman named George lives with his pretty and promiscuous young French wife Teresa. Dickey disconnects the phone lines and proceeds to hold the two hostage while awaiting further instructions from his underworld boss, the mysterious Katelbach.
Repulsion
Repulsion (1965)
, 1h45
Directed by Roman Polanski
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Films about psychiatry, Auto-justice
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Yvonne Furneaux, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Patrick Wymark, James Villiers
Roles Producer
Rating75% 3.7981753.7981753.7981753.7981753.798175
Carol Ledoux (Catherine Deneuve), a Belgian manicurist who bites her nails, lives in Kensington, London, with her older sister Helen (Yvonne Furneaux). Carol practically sleepwalks through her days, and interacts awkwardly with men. A would-be suitor, Colin (John Fraser), is flummoxed by her behaviour and she rebuffs his advances, disgusted by them. She hides her head in her pillow against her sister's cries of sexual pleasure with her married boyfriend, Michael (Ian Hendry). When Helen leaves on a holiday to Italy with Michael, Carol appears even more distracted at work, gets sent home, stays in the apartment, leaves a raw, skinned rabbit out to rot, and begins to hallucinate, first seeing the walls cracking, a man breaking in and molesting her, then hands reaching out to grab and attack her. Colin breaks into her apartment when she refuses to acknowledge his adoration and he apologizes for his transgression. When he says he wants to "be with" her "all the time," she bludgeons him to death with a candlestick, dumps the body into the overflowing bathtub, and nails the broken door shut.