Ratings : 7.3/10
Directed by : Philipp Stölzl
Genre(s) : Adventure | Drama
Released On : 25 December 2013
Star Cast : Emma Rigby, Stellan Skarsgård, Ben Kingsley
Synopsis : When
nine-year-old Rob Cole felt the life force slipping from his mother’s
hand he could not foresee that this terrifying awareness of impending
death was a gift that would lead him from the familiar life of
11th-century London to small villages throughout England and finally to
the medical school at Ispahan. Though apprenticed to an itinerant barber
surgeon, it is the dazzling surgery of a Jewish physician trained by
the legendary Persian physician Avicenna that inspires him to accept his
gift and to commit his life to healing by studying at Avicenna’s
school. Despite the ban on Christian students, Rob goes there,
disguising himself as a Jew to gain admission. Gordon has written an
adventurous and inspiring tale of a quest for medical knowledge pursued
in a violent world full of superstition and prejudice.
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