
The Physician
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.


















31 December 1943, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK



4 December 1962, Akhisar, Manisa, Turkey




7 February 1984, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany

13 June 1951, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

1964, Hamburg, Germany

1981, Germany

25 March 1983, Jena, Thuringia, Germany


1980, Hamburg, Germany



19 October 1965, Berlin, Germany


28 September 1998, Berlin, Germany



8 October 1962, Bamberg, Germany

7 September 1931, Hyderabad, India

16 August 1965, Istanbul, Turkey

1945, Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel]

1951, South Africa





December 01, 2014
Old fashioned, absurdly overlong, but a lovely recreation of the Dark Ages and an entertaining ride, thanks to Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgard and Tom Payne.
December 06, 2014
For those who miss the substance and scope of films like "Lawrence of Arabia" and "The Man Who Would Be King," Philipp Stoelzl's "The Physician" restores one's faith in the medium - if not necessarily one's faith in faith.