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Christ in Concrete is a 1939 novel by Pietro Di Donato about Italian-American construction workers.The book, which made Di Donato famous overnight, was originally published by Esquire Magazine as a short story in 1937, and subsequently expanded into a novel by the 28-year-old Di Donato.
This film was released in the United States as Christ in Concrete. [3] Another alternate title was Salt to the Devil. The film was based on the 1939 novel Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato. The title is taken from the Lord's Prayer.
Christ in Concrete, Immigrant Saint: The Life of Mother Cabrini Pietro di Donato (April 3, 1911–January 19, 1992) was an American writer and bricklayer best known for his novel, Christ in Concrete , which recounts the life and times of his bricklayer father, Geremio, who was killed in 1923 in a building collapse.
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In England, he made two films for producer Nat Bronstein: a thriller Obsession (1949), and Give Us This Day (1949), a neo-realistic movie sympathetic to the working man, based on the novel Christ in Concrete. The latter movie, which was successful in Europe, was released as Christ in Concrete in the United States and quickly suppressed. When ...
Review by James Patrick Kelly (1979) in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, December 1979; Review by George H. Scheetz (1979) in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, December 1979; Review by Steve Brown (1980) in Heavy Metal, January 1980; Review (in French) by Claude Eckerman (1981) in Futurs (2ème série), #3
But “Concrete Utopia,” like “Lord of the Flies,” is a parable about how empathy gets destroyed. It is also, in the end, a movie about the primal need for — and meaning of — home.