To whom nothing ever happens.

In photo: Director Vittorio De Sica (fist raised) and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini (left), on the set of The Bicycle Thief (1948).

Andre Bazin on Cesare Zavatinni profounding the purest form of neorealism: "The dream of Zavatinni is just to make a ninety-minute film of the life of a man to whom nothing ever happens."

Cesare Zavatinni (1902-89) was a journalist and novelist before becoming a screenwriter and the central theoretician of neorealism. Andre Bazin is a respected French critic.