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Omar Khayyam

  • August 1957
  • 1hr

    41mins

  • Adventure
  • Romance
  • Directed by

    William Dieterle,

    Starring

    Cornel Wilde,

    Michael Rennie,

    Debra Paget,

    John Derek

    ...

    Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.