

Omar Khayyam
Riding high with spectacular action and excitement !
Adventure
Romance
Overview
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.
Status:
Released
Release Date:
1957-08-23
Runtime:
1h 41m
Director:
William Dieterle
Writer:
Barré Lyndon
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