The Physician

2013 · film

England, 1021: Born in a miserable mining town, Robert Cole swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.

  • black death
  • medieval england
  • persia
  • medical student
  • jew persecution
  • 11th-century
  • religious fundamentalism
  • historical figure