Storm över Persien was released in the year 1957。Storm över Persien is also called as Omar Khayyam, The Loves of Omar Khayyam, Loves and Adventures of Omar Khayyam, The Life, Persian tikari, Avventure e gli amori di Omar Khayyam, Ørkenens sorte hemmelighed, Sturm über Persien。

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.

Storm över Persien actors and actresses include Debra Paget, John Derek。