Tempi nostri (1954)
Directed by Alessandro Blasetti, Paul Paviot

Film Synopsis

Five tales exploring the multiple facets of love.  Vasco and Mara are a young couple who fall in love but soon suffer from the privations of poverty.  She offers to find work as a prostitute, but he insists he can earn enough as a teacher to support them both.  Another couple in Rome are finding it impossible to make ends meet after the birth of their child.  They agree to leave the baby in a church but later they have a change of heart.  An older couple are unexpectedly reunited after several years as extras in a film.  Being asked to improvise their own dialogue, they finally have an occasion to confide in each other and reveal their true feelings.

In a remote mountain village, an old priest tries to talk a disillusioned old woman out of killing herself.  By saving the priest's life after he almost falls to his death, the woman realises that life is worth living after all.  A philandering bus driver finds himself an unexpected admirer when the latter tells him she wants to ditch her present boyfriend and start an affair with him.  Finally, a man sets out to win a camera by taking a photograph of an attractive woman in a room.  He gets the girl but loses the camera.