The Physician 2013

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 150 min

genre: historical

theme: epic

director: Philipp Stölzl

Score: 6 / 10

The Physician is a 2013 German historical drama film based on the novel of the same name by Noah Gordon. The film, co-written and directed by Philipp Stölzl, focuses on an orphan from an 11th-century English town whose mother died of side sickness. The boy vows to study medicine and decides to travel to Persia.

Plot

In medieval Europe, the Church is fighting against 'black magic'. The medical knowledge of Greek physicians like Hippocrates and Galen had been lost to the medicine of medieval Europe. In 11th-century England, travelling barber surgeons attempted to supply medical care to the ordinary population, often at the risk of the Church persecuting them for witchcraft.

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author	Christoph Müller Jan Berger Noah Gordon
contentLocation	Iran
director	Philipp Stölzl
editor	Sven Budelmann
genre	adventure drama historical
keywords	a book adultery advanced aladdin analgesic anesthesia appendectomy appendicitis aristotelian aristotle autopsy avicenna barber surgeons begin betray bimaristan biological warfare black death black magic bloodletting burn cataract catholic church church circumcise circumcision concussion cupping therapy deliberately infect dental extraction egypt egypt in the middle ages england extramarital sex fight first time galen golden age hakim hippocrates hirudo medicinalis human body hygiene hygienic ibn sina infect isfahan islamic golden age islamic philosophy jew jewish culture kakuyid persia kakuyids kingdom of england last stand leech treatment little boy london madrasa medical examination medical history medical writings medicine in the medieval islamic world medicine of medieval europe medieval medicine of western europe muhammad ibn rustam dushmanziyar mullah necromancy one thousand and one nights oriental rat flea other sciences peace treaty pulse diagnosis reject rescue sandstorm science in the medieval islamic world seljuk seljuk empire shah sick mother side sickness sinbad the sailor stone terminal illness the canon of medicine vermiform appendix world map write zoroastrian zoroastrianism
musicBy	Ingo Ludwig Frenzel
producer	Nico Hofmann Wolf Bauer
productionCompany	Beta Cinema Degeto Film UFA Cinema
publisher	Universal Pictures
recordedAt	Berlin
theme	epic race and ethnicity religion