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German | Der Medicus |
Directed by | Philipp Stölzl |
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Screenplay by | Jan Berger |
Based on | The Physician by Noah Gordon |
Produced by | Wolf Bauer Nico Hofmann |
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Cinematography | Hagen Bogdanski |
Edited by | Sven Budelmann |
Music by | Ingo Ludwig Frenzel |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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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 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.