About Gene Gutowski
Witold Bardach, better known as Gene Gutowski, was a Polish-American film producer who produced many of Roman Polanski's films, including Repulsion (1965), Cul-de-Sac (1966), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), and The Pianist (2002). Remaining close friends over the years, Gutowski and Polanski joined forces again to produce together The Pianist (2002), which won multiple Oscars. In order to escape from the Gestapo at 18 years old, he took on the name Eugene (Eugeniusz) Gutowski and left Warsaw for Riga, Latvia, where he became the head of a construction company working for the Organization Todt.
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