Dancing Before the Enemy: How a Teenage Boy Fooled the Nazis and Lived
2015 | 64m | English
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| Director: | Adam Bardach |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 29, 2015 |
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| Director: | Adam Bardach |
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| Genres: | Documentary |
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| Production Companies | Bardach Productions |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
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Updated: Jan 25, 2026 Entered: Jun 29, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Gene Gutowski | Self |
| Adam Bardach | Self |
| Robert Kuwalek | Self - Director, Bełżec Museum |
| Wojciech Rewerski | Self |
| Name | Job |
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| Jan A. P. Kaczmarek | Original Music Composer |
| Anna Różalska | Thanks |
| Adam Bardach | Director, Editor |
| George Reasner | Director of Photography |
| Deborah Ross | Title Designer |
| Name | Title |
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| Adam Bardach | Producer |
| Morgan Locke | Co-Producer |
| Malgosia Abramowska | Associate Producer |
| Nandi Kiselyova | Associate Producer |
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