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Omar Khayyam (1957)

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Plot

Omar Khayyam was among the greatest of 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 losing the love of his life to his ruler, and foiling an assassin sect's plot to kill that ruler, the empire's shah.

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Omar Khayyam is an adventure movie featuring Cornel Wilde and directed by William Dieterle.

It is possible to buy Omar Khayyam on Amazon Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies and YouTube.