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The Physician

Year:

2014

Duration:

150 min | Brazil:119 min (cut theatrical version)

Genres:

Adventure | Drama

IMDB rate:

7.3

Director:

Philipp Stölzl

Awards:

5 nominations

Details

Country: Germany

Release Date: 2014-12-05

Filming Locations: Morocco

Cast

Actor

Character

Emil Marwa

Tom Payne

Rob Cole

Stellan Skarsgård

Barber

Olivier Martinez

Shah Ala ad-Daula

Emma Rigby

Rebecca

Elyas M'Barek

Karim

Fahri Yardim

Davout Hossein

Makram Khoury

Imam (as Makram J Khoury)

Michael Marcus

Mirdin

Ben Kingsley

Ibn Sina

Stanley Townsend

Bar Kappara

Martin Hancock

Merlin

Adam Thomas Wright

Young Rob Cole

Jodie McNee

Agnes Cole

Dominique Moore

Despina

Aidan Kelly

Priest

Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni

Mirdin's Father (as Mehdi Ouazzani)

Raouia

Mirdin's Mother (as Fatima Harrandi)

Rabii Benjhail Tadlaoui

Jew in Caravan (as Rabii Tadlaoui)

Peter Bankole

Mano Dayak

Renu Setna

Quasim

Franz Dinda

Merlin's Apprentice

Lais Benjamin Campos

Anne Cole (4 years)

Aaron Kissiov

Samuel Cole (6 years)

Louis Fahrenholz

Benjamin (10 years)

Percy Hutchison

Jesse (7 years)

Ramin Yazdani

Rabbi

Sahin Eryilmaz

Fat Hakim

Hamid Najah

Elder 1

Mahmoudi M'Barek

Elder 2

Ben Aïssa El Jirari

Gate Guard (as Benaissa Eljirari)

Barbara Philipp

Wrench

Vincent Ebrahim

Tughrul

Mansour Badri

City Guard

Abdelhak Belamjahd

Bar Kappara Servant

Irshad Panjatan

Pharmacist (as Irshad Panatjan)

Gerti Drassl

Trembling Woman

Said Darif

Rabbi 2

Abdellatif Chaouqi

Shah's Messenger #1 (as Abdelatif Chaouqi)

Mourad Zaoui

Shah's Messenger #2

Yassine Afroukh

Shah's Messenger #3 (as Yasine Affroukh)

Isaiah Michalski

Young Boy

Ian T. Dickinson

Young Boy's Father (as Ian Dickinson)

Mohamed Nouaimane

Masked Man

Michael Jibson

Stratford Monk

Aykut Kayacik

Shah Official

Hicham Ichaab

Shah's General (as Hicham Ichhab)

Fatym Layachi

Concubine

Manuela Biedermann

Older Whore

Kim Nina Lechler

Younger Whore

Wilfried Hochholdinger

Tavern Guest

Michael Lott

Neighbour

Sybille J. Schedwill

Neighbour Woman

Mohammad-Ali Behboudi

Orderly

Robert A. Foster

Street Urchin

Richard Ridings

Tough Guy

Claudia Fritzsche

Young Maiden

Hatim Abdelghafour

Messenger with head

Ercan Durmaz

Patient Abolquasem

Çetin Ipekkaya

Librarian

Juli Staap

Little Girl

James Allan

Shah's Bodyguard (as James Allan Giscombe)

Michael Bornhütter

Farmer

Tom Paladin Bareck

Man (uncredited)

Moritz Michel

Patient (uncredited)

Lani Nguyen

Shah Servant (uncredited)

Christian Serritiello

Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)

Richard von Groeling

Dayak's Assistant (uncredited)

Natalia Witmer

Mirdin's Sister (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The film is based on a best-selling novel by Noah Gordon's "The Physician". The book was recorded in 1999 at the Book Fair in Madrid, in the list of the ten most popular books of all time.

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Goofs

The Farsi (Persian language) being spoken by the commoners and extras throughout the movie is modern day slang.

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Muslims never gave "sajda" (bending with their head down on ground) in front of their kings/shah. At most they bend a little while standing.

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Last years of Ibn Sina (Avicenna) were spent in the service of the Kakuyid ruler Muhammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyar, also known by his surname Ala al-Dawla Muhammad. Muhammad was not defeated by Seljuq forces, but began constructing instead massive defensive walls around Isfahan which later saved it from these Turkmen nomads who sacked and plundered some places in west and central Iran in 1038/39, including the city of Hamadan.

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Quotes

Rebecca: In my fever, I dreamt that we were man and wife. We had children... Four!

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Ibn Sina: What is it like?

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Ibn Sina: Because there is nothing to be afraid of.Death is merely a threshold we must all cross... into the silence, after the final heartbeat... drifting away with our final exhalation... into eternal peace...

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Faq

Why has this movie not been shown in US theaters?

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