Directed by: Eduard Miler
Co-produced by: Cankarjev dom, Slovenian National Theatre Drama Ljubljana and European Capital of Culture Maribor 2012
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a highly satirical allegory of Adolf Hitler. His rise to power is represented in parallel to that of Ui, a typical mobster in 1930s Chicago, who assumes control over the cauliflower racket.
The caricatured world of businessmen and mobsters has direct counterparts in real-life Nazi Germany. Brecht wrote Arturo Ui in 1941, investing it with an outspoken didactic message: to provide the American audiences with a clear analysis of the reasons for and consequences of the events in the 1930s Germany and highlight the fact that Hitler’s rise to power was simple, abrupt and utterly resistible.