The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

In popular culture

  • Lines from the play are quoted at the end of Cross of Iron, a 1977 drama war film directed by Sam Peckinpah: "Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again".[21]
  • In the final episode of the first season of Being Human, the vampire Herrick quotes the play shortly before the werewolf George kills him, "The world was almost won by such an ape! The nations put him where his kind belong. But don't rejoice too soon at your escape – The womb he crawled from is still going strong", mocking the heroes' hopes of stopping his plans for world domination, asserting the vampires' rise to power is inevitable.[22]

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