The Physician
2013 · Movie · 150 min. · Germany
Based on Noah Gordon's best-selling novel sold over 21 million times worldwide. THE PHYSICIAN tells the story of Rob Cole (Tom Payne), a boy who is left a penniless orphan in an 11th-century English mining town when his mother dies of a mysterious illness. Vowing to become a physician and vanquish Death itself, he travels to Isfahan in Persia to study medicine under the great Ibn Sina. Through countless ordeals and challenges, and making many sacrifices along the way, he struggles on unwaveringly.
Direction Philipp Stölzl
Cast Tom Payne · Stellan Skarsgard · Olivier Martínez · Emma Rigby · Ben Kingsley · Michael Jibson · Elyas M'Barek · Makram Khoury · Dominique Moore · Fahri Yardim
Soundtrack Ingo Frenzel
Screenplay Jan Berger · Noah Gordon
Cinematography Hagen Bogdanski
Original title Der Medicus (The Physician)
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18K votes (FilmAffinity)
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