Hitler as a Chicago gangster? Brecht's savage satire hits like a tommy gun.
The rise to underworld eminence of the notorious Chicago gangster Artuto Ui - who bears a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler.
Acting
Nicol Williamson's Ui channels Hitler through Cagney swagger.
Direction
Jack Gold preserves Brecht's deliberate artificiality for film.
Writing
Brecht's 1941 script: Nazi rise as Prohibition gangster flick.
Director
Jack Gold
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brecht wrote this in 1941 while fleeing the Nazis, using Chicago gangsters to explain German fascism to American audiences who understood Capone better than Hitler.
The 'Resistible' in the title is bitter irony—Brecht insists Ui's rise could have been stopped, implicating everyone who enabled him.
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