In The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), Omar Sharif played Davich, a Yugoslav partisan who, in the film’s second episode, falls in love with a woman, played by Ingrid Bergman, during the Second World War. Directed by Anthony Asquith, the film follows a single yellow Rolls-Royce through three owners and three stories, from the 1930s to the war years.
Davich is brave, romantic and doomed, and Sharif plays him with a tenderness that makes his episode the emotional heart of the film. The story, set against the war in Yugoslavia, shows Sharif at his most romantic, a leading man whose presence could make a brief episode feel like a complete love story.