Omar Khayyam (1957)

Omar Khayyam 1957 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 sects plot to kill that ruler, the empires shah