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

The film’s protagonist, Witold Bardach (Gene Gutowski), the son of a lawyer and pianist, was born in 1925 in Lviv. In 1941, a year after the Germans had entered the city, the situation of his family of Jewish origin became tragic. His parents and kin died in a concentration camp. A teenage Witold was alone. He escaped to Warsaw. Under the name of Eugeniusz Gutowski and thanks to his command of languages and him being extraordinarily smart, he found a job with the German Junkers company. He joined the Home Army. When the Gestapo caught his scent, he fled to Latvia and worked for a German construction company. Evacuated to Germany, he lived to see the end of the war and made it over to the American sector. He joined the US Army counter intelligence service as a special agent prosecuting Nazi criminals and Soviet agents.

In April 1947 he arrived in the USA, started to illustrate fashion and went on to film production. Producer of outstanding pictures, including the films by Roman Polański (”Repulsion”, “Cul-de-sac”, “Dance of the Vampires”), co-producer of “The Pianist”, which won an Oscar for best director and best screenplay.

Author of his autobiography “From Holocaust to Hollywood”.
Dancing Before the Enemy: How a Teenage Boy Fooled the Nazis and Lived

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