Omar Khayyam

Name: Omar Khayyam
Director: William Dieterle
Released: 1957-08-23T00:00:00Z

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.

Runtime: 101

Release date: 1957-08-23

<article> <figure> <img src="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/62gzFsjRkn4k169PZijbpMiYQzA.jpg" title='Omar Khayyam' alt='Omar Khayyam'/> </figure> <h1>Omar Khayyam</h1> <p>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.</p> <details><summary>Runtime: 101</summary> <summary>Release date: 1957-08-23</summary></details> </article>