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Omar Khayyam (1957)

Omar Khayyam (1957)

Romance Adventure

Riding high with spectacular action and excitement !

Release Date: 1957, August 23
Directors: William Dieterle
Countries: United States of America
Production: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Debra Paget, John Derek, Henry Brandon, Kem Dibbs, Dick Elliott, Michael Rennie, Sebastian Cabot, John Abbott, James Griffith, Edward Platt, Perry Lopez, Abraham Sofaer

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.

Keywords:

biography poet