2013 · adventure · drama · history
The Physician
Directed by Philipp Stölzl2h 35m2013
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.
Our read: The Physician (2013) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded adventure · drama · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured adventure / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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