The Physician (2013 film)

The Physician
German movie poster
German	Der Medicus
Directed by	Philipp Stölzl
Written by	Philipp Stölzl Simon Block Christoph Müller
Screenplay by	Jan Berger
Based on	The Physician by Noah Gordon
Produced by	Wolf Bauer Nico Hofmann
Starring	Tom Payne Ben Kingsley Stellan Skarsgård Olivier Martinez Emma Rigby
Cinematography	Hagen Bogdanski
Edited by	Sven Budelmann
Music by	Ingo Ludwig Frenzel
Production companies	UFA Cinema Degeto Film Beta Cinema
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	25 December 2013 (2013-12-25) (Germany)
Running time	150 minutes (Theater) 180 minutes[1] (TV series)
Country	Germany
Language	English
Budget	$32 million
Box office	$57,284,237[2]

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Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā)
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The Book of Healing The Canon of Medicine Al-Nijat
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Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani Bahmanyar Ibn Abi Sadiq Ali ibn Yusuf al-Ilaqi
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The Physician (German: Der Medicus) is a 2013 German historical drama film based on the novel of the same name by Noah Gordon.^[3] 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.^[4]

The film stars Tom Payne, Ben Kingsley (as physician Ibn Sina), Stellan Skarsgård, Olivier Martinez, and Emma Rigby in lead roles.