The Physician (2013)

R12/25/2013Adventure, Drama, History2h 35m
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A journey out of darkness into light

Overview

England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.

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    Tom Payne

    Rob Cole

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    Ben Kingsley

    Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

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    Stellan Skarsgård

    Barber

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    Olivier Martinez

    Shah Ala ad Daula

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    Emma Rigby

    Rebecca

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    Elyas M'Barek

    Karim

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    Fahri Yardım

    Davout Hosein

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    Makram J. Khoury

    Imam

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    Michael Marcus

    Mirdin

**It's a good movie, it entertains its audience well, but it's riddled with small historical errors that could easily have been corrected.** Films about medieval times are always nice to watch, especially for me, who have a great affection for this historical period, about which I did a specialization as a historian. Unfortunately, and as happens regularly, this movie is full of mistakes. The script is quite good, from an entertainment point of view: an English orphan who is raised and trained by an itinerant barber acquires a great fascination for medicine and for the ability to cure il...