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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam

OMAR KHAYYAM

Directed by William Dieterle
United States, 1957
Adventure, Biography, Romance

Synopsis

Cornel Wilde stars in this fictional imagining of the life of 11th-century poet, mathematician and philosopher Omar Khayyam, in which Khayyam serves as an advisor to the royal court, outwits a sect of assassins and loses his lover to the Shah.

Synopsis

Cornel Wilde stars in this fictional imagining of the life of 11th-century poet, mathematician and philosopher Omar Khayyam, in which Khayyam serves as an advisor to the royal court, outwits a sect of assassins and loses his lover to the Shah.