The Physician

Year: 2013

Country: Germany

Tagline: A journey out of darkness into light

Plot: In the 11th century, Rob Cole left poor, disease-ridden London to make his way across the land, hustling, juggling, peddling cures to the sickand discovering the mystical ways of healing. It was on his travels that he found his own very real gift for healinga gift that urged him on to become a doctor. So all consuming was his dream, that he made the perilous, unheard-of journey to Persia, to its Arab universities where he would undertake a transformation that would shape his destiny forever.Set during the 11th century, the movie centers on a destitute orphan whose mother died of a mysterious illness as he travels to Persia to study medicine with the legendary Persian physician Avicenna.In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.

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