The Physician Page #8

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.
Director(s): Philipp Stölzl
Production: Lionsgate Films
  5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
R
Year:
2013
150 min
891 Views


and leave.

Can you take us home now?

Where to?

Wherever.

Our home is with you now.

I already miss him.

No. No one is dead.

As long as we all remember them...

his spirit will live on.

But it is in your hands to keep it alive.

How can I do that?

Be a great physician.

[Barber]These 2 eyes have seen everything the

good Lord put on this Earth was to see...

and some terrifying things that no man

was meant to witness in his life.

But nowhere have I seen more...

beautiful girls than here in...

in beautiful London.

So roll up! Listen up and shut up!

What's wrong? Nobody's sick in this

dump anymore?

All the sick are at the hospital.

- The what?

- The hospital.

- Built by the physician from the Orient.

- What physician from the orient?

Physician Cole!

Cole?!

Him, his wife and a bunch of Jews.

They can cure anything.

Brat!

Here.

Lead the way. Tell me about it.

I went for a fever.

You get a soft bed to lie in, hot meals

and magic medicine.

Someone's playing music.

And then what?

Physician Cole comes to see you

every evening.

And if you ask, he juggles and tells

you amazing stories.

With lions and horses...

with big humps on their back.

And falcons that can break a man's

skull with its beak.

- And his wife, what is... what's she like?

- Delicious.

- What do you know? What are you, nine?

- I'm ten!

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes

Noah Gordon

All Noah Gordon scripts | Noah Gordon Scripts

0 fans

Submitted on August 05, 2018

Discuss this script with the community:

0 Comments

    Translation

    Translate and read this script in other languages:

    Select another language:

    • - Select -
    • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
    • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
    • Español (Spanish)
    • Esperanto (Esperanto)
    • 日本語 (Japanese)
    • Português (Portuguese)
    • Deutsch (German)
    • العربية (Arabic)
    • Français (French)
    • Русский (Russian)
    • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
    • 한국어 (Korean)
    • עברית (Hebrew)
    • Gaeilge (Irish)
    • Українська (Ukrainian)
    • اردو (Urdu)
    • Magyar (Hungarian)
    • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
    • Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Italiano (Italian)
    • தமிழ் (Tamil)
    • Türkçe (Turkish)
    • తెలుగు (Telugu)
    • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
    • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
    • Čeština (Czech)
    • Polski (Polish)
    • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Românește (Romanian)
    • Nederlands (Dutch)
    • Ελληνικά (Greek)
    • Latinum (Latin)
    • Svenska (Swedish)
    • Dansk (Danish)
    • Suomi (Finnish)
    • فارسی (Persian)
    • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
    • հայերեն (Armenian)
    • Norsk (Norwegian)
    • English (English)

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "The Physician" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 26 Jul 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/the_physician_21066>.

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest writers community and scripts collection on the web!

    Watch the movie trailer

    The Physician

    Browse Scripts.com

    The Studio:

    ScreenWriting Tool

    Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features.


    Quiz

    Are you a screenwriting master?

    »
    What does "B.G." stand for in a screenplay?
    A Big Goal
    B Bold Gesture
    C Backstory
    D Background