IMDb
5.9 /10
420 votes


Adventure · Romance · 1957 · 1h 41min
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.
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IMDb
5.9 /10
420 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
33 /100
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TMDB
5.8 /10
8 votes
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Weighted average
5.0/10