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Medicine is in the dark ages developed by the Romans forgotten in Europe.

There are no doctors, no hospitals, only traveling hairdressers with little knowledge.

At the same time is on the other side of it the world's medical science prosperous.

Based on the same name novel by Noah Gordon.

Up and down,

from left to right already more than a hundred years.

But I have never had the pleasure from seeing such a crowd.

With such beautiful girls,

like here in the beautiful Rough Dovender.

That's why I really like this,

because I always put the best eggs here.

Ladies and gentlemen, from broken bones,

to decaying teeth

and useless stumps.

From pustules on the back to black liquid in your lungs.

Whatever the evil by the devil caused.

Me and I alone have the remedy.

Me and I alone have the remedy!

And not only that.

I can also cut the lies out of your hair.

Look at that poor boy. He can hardly see through his wild hair. Come here.

Let me show you the wonders of the daylight.

- Come here. Forward. - This bread is mine! Give that back.

Lord, have mercy us, your poorest children.

Protect Rob from the idea that he can fight with older boys.

Give the stinking finger from my Samuel back,

to smack at his nose.

And leave my little Anne waiting for the prayer

before she puts bread in her mouth.

Amen.

Mom?

Nothing.

Mom?

Dear God, let it stop.

Mom!

Soon, my mother needs help.

- Go away! I'm not here. - Please healer.

Walk her hell.

What can me be a bitch in this pigsty care?

Get out. Come back tomorrow as she is not dead yet. Go away.

I cleanse this sinful heart with this holy oil.

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit ...

Amen.

Fast!

Mom, I brought the barber to heal you.

What is he doing here?

If he is there, it is too late.

For me.

There is no cure for her except the grace of God.

Something else would be witchcraft.

Amen, Father. You take the words out of my mouth.

No, please!

Doubts someone here the Holy Church?

Father, I do not.

Do you want to be buried with the wild beasts, or peacefully resting in the churchyard near the church?

- That costs 5 pence. - We have nothing.

- Nothing? - Nothing.

Good. Then it must be another grave.

My children.

Our God and Jesus Christ,

have mercy on us.

Give us back our mother.

We need her more than you.

Please Lord.

Please God.

She breathes.

She's cold.

We have to cover her.

No. So.

She is thirsty. Water.

Drink.

The stuff goes to the one who takes the youngest.

We can take the two youngest. They can sleep in the stable.

You take two why not all three?

The oldest is too big. We can not feed him.

Do not cry, Samuel. Mother is always with us.

Come on.

Come! Forward.

Rob!

Come.

Come.

I take this for the rites and the holy oil.

Where do I have to go?

Pray to the Almighty for guidance.

Ren. Away!

I can take care of the horse. I know horses.

I do not need anyone. And certainly not a little boy behind me.

My soul is bleeding for your rat. Forward.

Who is there? Show yourself.

Before we tear you with his three.

How do you get here?

The horse is very slow.

Get out!

- Please, only tonight. - No.

Get your stinking ass out.

- Please. - No.

Could you have saved her?

There is no cure for that disease.

- Is your mother still alive? - No, she died of the same disease.

- Do you have a family? - No.

I have enough with my own worries.

Who do you talk to when you are alone?

I will not. I am sleeping. Quiet now.

- I just wondered ... - Enough!

There will be a word there tonight a rat is less in the world.

Bek.

I have seen everything that the Lord has put on earth.

Terrible things that do not man should see.

I will pull hands off and blow your lungs out and kill you.

I was only taking care of a wound.

- I can testify. - Lies. Slut.

Ask yourself: what would Jesus do?

- A little more forgiving? - To forgive?

Seems broken.

I can fix it for three pence. Come to us at the market.

Nowhere will I be such a crowd as here in the beautiful Ederwelher.

Nowhere are the girls more beautiful ...

- You already said that! - Shut up!

My juggler. Found on the bottom of a well.

The show is free and the treatment almost free.

- Where were you? - House visit.

A spoonful of this powder every morning and never again kidney problems.

For forgetfulness this dried tongue around the neck.

- And here's a special drink. - This is witchcraft!

I pick the herbs myself at full moon. - You're in hell.

It prevents your wife from having children.

Neither you or your neighbor.

- This is black magic! - Shut up! Come for healing.

Can the young barber not do it?

There is no young barber here.

Only a stupid student and an old master.

If I did not like you, you would not have to fall from your broom, witch.

Who's next?

- Good night, boy. - Good night.

How was it?

I'm in love.

You should also only take whores.

Much less stress ...

..than women and daughters of others.

Rob ...

- Need help old? - Do not you dare.

Ever wondered what's in it?

Here.

Meat, blood, bones. Your soul, if you have it.

And here.

More meat, more blood.

Does side disease (blind gut) come from bad blood?

Does not make me a butt.

If I can not cure it I can not count on it.

Have you never wondered what's in it? Have you never looked?

- After breakfast I can cut open. - No, I mean by dead people.

Do not talk about that. Never.

Do you know what the church does to kill enchanters?

At the stake. It is heresy.

I saw it when I was a child. The skin peels off.

The flesh and blood hiss in the flames. Terrible.

Enough to never want to see it again.

Stop talking about side disease. It will not bring your mother back.

No more word about it. Never.

Tang.

Open your mouth.

More light.

Wait.

This is Holy Ground of the Olive Mountain.

Mix this and drink it in a gulp.

Forget how you drink, boy?

I will show it to you.

So, boy.

The farmer with his teeth ...

- Death comes to get him. - Death is for everyone.

No. I felt it.

- Did you feel death? - Yes.

That is worse than toothache.

My student believes that he is a seer.

For real? When will my husband back from the war?

I hope not too soon.

How will the harvest be this year?

There they are, the devils. You there.

Murderers. You must be us give some answers!

This morning this went the loser working on the field.

In the afternoon he came to you for his toothache.

He gave his last breath in the evening.

Run away.

You cursed this man with black magic.

You have betrayed God and the Church.

You owe my sister a man.

That will be difficult if she's as ugly as you are.

Get him!

I think you will live for another hundred years.

I told you to run away.

I will start tomorrow tomorrow.

And then?

- You will heal. - Not before we starve.

- You have to leave. - And leave you for the wolves?

I can always beg at the church.

- Yes, and during the winter? - I'll be a feast for the crows.

Then at least this will be miserable life about.

- And the world is losing a good barber. - You're not listening.

I can not even hold the pliers!

I can hold it for you. I've seen you do it for years.

You've also seen the clouds, that means not that you can let it rain.

I've seen ugly giants and greedy dwarfs.

And yesterday had to I fight with a dragon ...

with my bare hands.

But I still have nowhere more beautiful girls than seen here.

... this will prevent your wife to bring children into the world.

- God help me.

Who wants to be healed?

Come into the miracle house. Come on in.

Good morning.

Put the boy on the table.

- Inflamed to the bone. - Ignited, yes.

- All the toes must be removed. - All toes.

Or he loses his leg.

- Should not you tie him up? - Right. First.

Stop this in your mouth boy.

Bite hard.

Iron.

Iron.

- Iron! - Iron!

Is it warm?

- How many times did your student do this? - Thousands of times. Be silent.

Breathe deeply and then quick movements. Finish quickly.

Look, the Holy Virgin!

My first amputation.

Mine too.

- What is this drink? - Tears of the Holy Virgin.

I thought they were from a monk in Jerusalem.

He stopped crying a long time ago. Pay attention.

He bitten.

The more painful the treatment, the more respect for the barber.

Another.

Next one!

For the same wage one must merchant selling his soul.

And the farmer has to work until he falls down.

So thank God for your profession. Every damn day.

Thank you God.

Looks healthy.

Rob! Rob, come here.

Quiet.

Rob?

With this water I baptize Rob Cole as a barber.

You are no longer a student but a master now.

Reward this barber, Venus.

I am here, blind ox.

You keep big mouth. I have eagles eyes.

Yes, a dead eagle. No fingers in the wrong place.

I want the right place.

Your teacher has to go to the Jew. The Jew heals the blind.

- No one can heal the blind. - The Jew does.

He also awakens the dead and leaves the lame walking on the water.

No jokes about Jesus Christ ours Savior. I am not a fucking Jew.

Here, I will do it.

I need to practice.

These people mutilate their children.

They cut the penis.

They will pick my eyes out.

So what? You can not be blind.

How does it work?

My teacher keeps it secret.

I am also a barber.

A barber?

Beautiful.

You can cut my hair.

So. I make no promises.

The operation is difficult. It does not always result.

- Some die of it. - Create.

30 pence in advance.

30 pence! That is a theft!

Never!

Please do what you can.

What's your name?

Rob.

- What's your name? - I'm Benjamin. And this is Jesse.

- Are you a Christian, Rob? - Yes.

- Is it true that you were not circumcised? - Our God does not want it.

Did you succeed?

Well ... in a few days we know that.

Thank you.

King. Lord, produces bread from the earth.

If you like the bread you may have eaten.

- Why do not you get rid of his bandage? - Me?

Barbiers can remove bandage, right?

Rob. Is that you?

Yes I'ts me.

Do not open your eyes yet.

Remove the leftovers.

Can you see?

Like a child.

He has to rest.

O ... you rat.

What did you do to my teacher's eyes? Where did you learn?

In a place called Isfahan.

Isfahan?

Is that further than London?

"Is that beyond London?" Does he mean that?

Benjamin. Shall we show him the card?

That is it.

What is it?

The world.

The world?

And ... is that blue the sky?

Have you never seen the sea?

- I have heard of it. - Look.

We are here. This is London.

And here is Isfahan.

The best doctor in the world teaches there.

Ibn Sina.

No one in the world has comparable wisdom.

- Ibn ... - Ibn Sina.

Ibn Sina.

Can he cure side disease?

Ibn Sina can cure many ailments.

- How long does it take to get there? - More than a year.

First you have to go to the south coast of England, then across the canal,

through France and then with one boat along the coast of Africa

Then you come to Egypt,

and there...

they will kill you.

Why?

Here begins the Islam world: Arabia, Persia.

Christians are forbidden. Only the Jews allow them.

Sorry. You believe in the wrong God.

I had forgotten that the world was so beautiful.

I take the men and you the women.

We share the profit. You get one third and I two thirds.

No, two-fifths for you and three-fifths for me.

No, that's too complicated.

The Jew said that Ibn Sina leprosy and typhus can heal.

How?

I do not know. But he has a big one palace where he treats his patients

and they stay there until they are healed.

What does he charge them?

And he still has a palace, 'Madrassa', where he teaches.

- He has two palaces? - Yes.

And I want to study there.

A barber with two palaces.

No! I want to become Hakim.

Saracens call their healers Hakims.

I do not care how they call them. That Jew took you out of the blue.

We have to travel to the Far East.

- We? - Yes.

- In the East? - Yes, and we return as healers.

Then we can better cure our patients.

Here you part.

Get up Mr. Hakim.

Rob?

Rob!

Rob!

For God sake. What are you doing?

I do not want my whole treat warts.

I do not want to pull teeth horsepipe as tonic sales.

I want to learn to cure cataract, the side disease and all other diseases.

You told me it is not possible, but now look.

There is so much that you know nothing about.

It is huge.

Yes, that is Dover, the best place to find a boat.

From my car.

What are you waiting for? Go drown.

Sea monsters will tear you apart. What does that matter to me?

Here.

Thanks.

Get rid of rat.

Away.

God, feel sorry for me.

Bless me on my long and dangerous road.

Do not let the waves swallow me whether sea monsters devour me.

Do not let my throat cut through bandits or tear me through wolves.

Do not let me starve or get lost in the woods.

Please Jesus, forgive me.

That I deny my faith and sin.

To serve your creation and your glory.

The caravan to Isfahan leaves in 4 days. Before you go you have to go to my brother.

He gives you Jewish clothes. For a fair price.

Shalom.

Shalom.

How long to Isfahan?

- Two months. - Only two months?

Enough, Jew.

Fill them with water for the dawn.

Stop reading and go to sleep.

You waste oil.

That girl is so obsessed with her book as an addict to opium.

She needs a lot of money from Persia.

More than enough. She must be rich.

Mrs?

- Are you an honorable man? - I'm trying to.

Then leave me alone.

So.

Close to the heart.

What's your name?

Jesse.

- Son of? - Benjamin.

I do not know how Jews pray England, Benjamin ben Jesse,

..but here we follow Nomas. Okay? - Okay.

And we do not look at girls who do not belong to us. Okay?

Okay.

Seljuks.

- Who are they? - Nomads from the north.

Gruesome Riders.

They cross this country and establish bloodbaths.

By Allah. It seems like they are in prayer.

What kind of thief does this leave behind?

They believe that Allah has them chosen to punish sinners.

They despise possessions and enjoyment.

It is well.

We have to take her.

There is no room on my camel and you do not have one.

There is space in the carriage.

With all due respect, she is not your problem.

I make her my problem.

How is she doing?

She sleeps.

Let her drink.

How do you know so much about fever?

- In England I was a barber. - Barbier.

Englishman. Go somewhere else.

Or is the desert too small for you?

Jesse.

Come. The girl. It's getting worse.

She was shivering from the cold. Now she burns like fire.

Its temperature must drop. Do you have water?

Here.

And Aladdin was surprised the lamp that started to smoke.

A ghostly fog arose in which a gigantic form became visible,

with eyes as big as coach wheels.

"Who are you?" Aladdin asked.

"I am a jin, at your service",

replied a deafening voice.

What happens next?

The jin already fulfills Aladdin's wishes,

and makes him incredibly rich.

And then he helps with the conquest from the Sultans daughter.

I wish I had such a lamp.

My favorite story is Sinbad the sailor.

He meets in his travels giants and cannibals.

But nothing scares him.

All those stories are in this book?

Yes, and much more.

That is the most beautiful ... what I ever saw.

I can take care of her now.

What are you doing so far from home, barber?

I'm going to study at the greatest healer in the world.

I want all children in my city rabbis or traders.

- I just want to help people. - I see that.

What brings you to Isfahan?

A business agreement.

What kind of business?

A sand storm is coming!

Englishman!

Tie the camels together!

Jesse!

The others. We lost them!

I'm looking for them.

Help!

Come on, help me!

The rope!

I can not keep it.

Rebecca!

Rebecca!

Do not waste your powers.

They are all dead.

And we will soon.

Keep going.

Keep going.

Deliver us from evil.

For yours is the kingdom the power and glory

forever. Amen.

Who are you?

You are not a Jew.

The Shah.

This man wants to talk to you.

You have to keep beggars away from the door and do not let it in

Here you go sir.

I am not a beggar.

I came to study at the great healer, Ibn Sina.

I get it.

So you have letters of recommendation from recognized academics who praise your intellectual qualities?

And you as the hope of to promote humanity?

No, I do not have that.

Then I can only accept it that you are extraordinarily rich

and our library with one want to expand extra wing.

No, I only have sand.

Why would I allow you?

We do not have another one smelly Jew needed.

- Disappear. - No, please.

- And give him a beating. - No, please. Please.

I come from the other side of the world!

You can not touch them.

Why do I feel no pain?

I stunned your wound,

to sew them tight.

How?

With poppy seed ointment.

Poppy seed ointment.

We have been using it for centuries. What is used in your country?

Beer.

A lot of honey beer.

- It is not wool thread? - Silk.

It is stronger.

You seem more interested in the medicine than my other patients.

I came to study with Ibn Sina.

Do you know him?

They say he is the biggest healer in the world.

He is not that big. He is actually quite normal.

- Do you know him? - A little better every day.

- Can you speak to him on my behalf? - Rest.

Jew. Jew!

Stand up, the lesson is about to begin.

You may have lied to the master to accept you,

but I'm not kidding you.

I was accepted.

My eyes are patient. They will see you fail and leave again.

By Allah, not another Jew.

Better an inquisitive Jew than one spoiled Persian boaster.

Beware of who insults you, Mirdin.

My father has 30 pieces donated to the library,

and I can make sure you no access to them.

Karin. Mirdin.

I hope that this lively exchange,

in the name of the scientific progress.

Yes sir.

How does our newcomer feel from the other end of the earth?

Much better.

- Thank you sir. - Thank you youth.

Who does wonders that one doctor can not match.

No, I mean your intercession at Ibn Sina for me.

That was easier than you think.

Yesterday I discovered something ...

This is the medicine class of Ibn Sina.

... with a sick patient.

And I want to include it in our form of healing.

In my last lesson

.. we talked about sound.

I demonstrated harmony and resonance.

I discovered that some harmonies ...

Do not find your parents mind if I, a stranger, sleep there?

If they knew I was a fellow student sleeping on the street they would deny me.

- This is Jacob and Sarah. - Hey.

Jesse, would you like us take precedence in prayer?

Yes of course.

Thank the Lord for wheat

and thank the Lord for the wheat ...

that was born from the earth ...

so that we eat that bread,

have a lot of bread to eat.

Are you praying in England?

Other countries, other customs.

A criminal. No compassion.

- Why? - They are rebellious.

They think our Shah the violates the laws of Allah.

The tolerance for other religions, the support for science and art ...

..that are deadly sins in the eyes of the Mullahs.

Does that deserve such a strict treatment?

Jesse, like these people at the the madrassa is closed,

and we are expelled Jews from the city.

We must be grateful to the shah.

Are you ready for the lesson?

Did your father realize that there is more is looking at studying then buying books?

You can not get up in time for the lesson if you did not go to bed.

Careful.

If you had drunk as much as I did, you would no longer be standing upright.

I learned to drink from the best. I'd drink you under the table like that.

Be careful. I could accept your offer.

You should be ashamed. Good Muslims do not drink.

A good Muslim does not allow himself by a concierge advise.

... exists by existence.

I exist is not the result of existence,

But a condition of the latter.

Englishman, do you understand a word of it?

Nor not.

Aristotle?

We do not treat diseases. We treat people who suffer from diseases.

Good day, Sir.

My name Ibn Sina and this are my students.

With your permission, I want to deal with you.

What is your name?

My name Abolqasem.

It is a great honor to be able to entrust my health to you.

The spheres of the universe are as a whole of concentric circles.

That is what the great Aristotle suggested to them.

The friction of this movement creates a sound: the Music of the Spheres.

Sometimes during a quiet night, if you listen carefully,

.. you can hear it.

Master, I hear it.

- Excuse me. - What can I do for you?

Ibn Sina wants a report on ear infections. Do you have a book about it?

- Up there. - Thanks.

- Which one is about ear infection? - All of them.

All of them?

Gentlemen, this is lamp oil,

and that is vinegar for purification. - Purification.

These are ice blocks around the fever in patients to cool.

Gentlemen, what do you think?

- Maybe ice cream? - Ice.

- Maybe a bit of rest? - He is hurt.

That's how we do it in England.

Well, who wants to help me at a demonstration of the effects ..

..of opium and hemp.

- Me. - And I.

Gentlemen.

Now look at it. Such a brave Jew. Will nobody then defend the honor of Persia?

Do not be afraid. You'll be in a few hours wonderfully refreshed.

So.

Give me a stronger dose. My body is too strong.

I think it started. Refreshing.

I never want to sleep again.

Are the girls in England so beautiful this?

- More beautiful. - More beautiful?

- Hey? - Shalom.

Is their bodies like cypresses? And their hair like a waterfall?

- Some even have red hair. - Red?

I do not believe that.

- Everywhere? - Yes.

Praise Allah for the beauty of creation.

I pray that red-haired English virgins wait for me in paradise.

Did you leave a girl to come here?

Actually, yes.

The most beautiful girl I have ever met.

Sensible, friendly ...

- wise ... - You already said that.

- Yes, and beautiful. - You said nicely too.

- I would steal that girl from you. - Then I would have killed you.

Today we pray for our brothers

who chained in the dungeons of the tyrant.

What evil have they committed?

Did they kill someone? No.

Have they dishonored a woman? No.

Their only crime ...

is to follow the laws of the Koran and Allah.

Allah, I knelt in the dust to ask you:

How long do we have to to endure this injustice?

- Should we undress? - Do not you do this in England?

- Of course. But we do not dress. - What? With your clothes on?

Well, the climate ... it is very cold. - Aha?

Well, you are circumcised according to the law. More or less...

We call the righteous and Generous Bar Kappara.

- Mirdin. - Dear Bar Kappara.

Leave me a friend and introduce fellow student,

Benjamin Ben Jesse from England.

England?

We are proud of every Jew that can study at the madrassa.

And my future wife is from Spain.

Let me introduce her. Rebecca?

Come on.

Greet them.

Shalom.

Shalom.

Shalom.

I hope you honor us attend the wedding.

- You are too good. - We have a lot to celebrate.

It is a wonder that Rebecca survived the trip.

Her caravan was swallowed up by a violent sandstorm.

A brave guide has me and saved a little girl.

Thank God.

Friend.

Now you know what the business was.

May your marriage be blessed and be joyful.

And before we retire, I want to thank you all on this wonderful day.

On behalf of myself and my beautiful bride. From our hearts.

And now I have to fulfill my duty.

- You have to forget your feelings for her. - That was me.

You could not know that she would be his wife. Come back inside.

Good night, Mirdin.

You seem sad.

- I lost a very dear person. - Well,

You have found me now.

We have to do with what we have.

Let's see what we can find. Here.

Listen. I never go free for someone.

Please be quiet.

Does this hurt?

What's the matter with her?

I do not have it yet found, teacher.

If you are the master say that he leaves me alone.

The night is almost over and my pouch is still empty.

Watch your words, girl.

If this man brought you here is that for a good reason.

What reason do you have?

She will not survive the night.

- She seems very healthy. - I can not explain.

I have to leave.

My beautiful flower,

Do it for my sake. Give my student a moment ..

of your valuable time.

That's how you talk to a lady.

People pay a lot to get them out.

Master, look.

Awaken the pharmacist. Let him bring spring herb.

Where is he going?

Save your life.

It is a premonition you say?

It is as if .. the time stops.

The reality opens itself as a veil so that I can see.

- What do you see? - I do not see anything.

Just feel.

And know that death is approaching.

The first time was with my mother.

She died of side disease.

- It's a curse. - It's a blessing.

Today you have life that girl saved.

- A success, but many failures. - Well,

That is the fate of every doctor.

- Death is not the enemy. - Then what? Like a friend?

I calculated the jobs of all these stars and planets.

I have calculated the volumes.

..but only touched the surface of the secrets of creation.

Is it not frustrating that there is so much is that we do not know?

No.

It fills me with wonder.

How mediocre and boring would the world without mystery.

Master.

Could you have cured my mother?

That is not within our reach.

Maybe in a hundred years.

Maybe about a thousand.

Ibn Sina!

It seems they need me.

Never come closer than five steps to him. Never look into the eyes.

If he speaks to you, react in short sentences.

And always finish with one of his titles.

Jesse ...

Answers in short sentences and end with one of his titles.

I sprained my wrist.

If you had come earlier you would have seen how I decapitated this Seljuk.

I'm sorry I missed it. He deserved to be beheaded.

He came with a message for a peace treaty.

- Hence the immediate decapitation. - Of course.

The Seljuks violate our limits.

We must chastise these wild animals or slaughter as goats.

Do you long for war, Most Perfect?

They have nothing to lose except for them bulls.

His Majesty has an entire civilization.

Is that right?

But which artist has ever a peaceful king glorified?

Only war gives immortal fame.

Do not you think?

I am studying to heal, Sublime.

I do not know anything about immortality.

Did you hear that? He talks openly in my presence.

Hopefully my palace will collapse not in such brutality.

- Where are you from? - He's from England, Sublime.

I read about it.

A barbaric island on the edge of the world.

Where half-naked pagans resisted Caesar's legions.

My fellow countrymen clothes nowadays.

- O, Guardian of the people. - O, Guardian of the people.

- And they worship a carpenter nailed to the cross. - Let's do that.

But the Jews like me are waiting for the true Messiah.

Tell.

Have you seen foreign countries on your journey Eastward?

More than you can count.

Even a humble student has more from the world than the Shah.

Send that smelly head back to the Seljuks.

My son will have the funeral of a hero.

What message will I bring from the Lord of the Seljuks to the Shah?

Do not worry, I have already sent a message.

Bring one of our brothers that leads to the Black Death.

The needle pierces the middle of the eye.

And pushes the lens towards the back of the eyeball.

This allows the sun to reach the patient's eyes ...

Maestro, someone has died on the market.

He had black sores all over his body.

The darkness allows me to feel his heart.

When my wrist is calm, he stays seated.

He must be treated gently.

A falcon beak can crack a skull.

Did you know that Englishman?

Please Sublime.

We have heard about the festering body that died inside the walls.

You must vacate the city immediately.

The city is already more than one century free from the plague.

My father never saw it.

But his son gets to see it with his own eyes.

The Imam and his mullahs prayed to God for me punish for my extravagance.

You know that. I can not give them that favor.

Lord, hundreds of thousands of you people can die.

My people are strong. They will survive.

You have upset my falcon.

This conversation is over.

The plague does not care if you are rich or poor.

Worker or nobleman. Once Isfahan reached nothing stops it further.

- Are you threatening me, Englishman? - No threat, Lord.

A promise.

We need more beds.

Galen believed that the plague came through one imbalance in the four body fluids.

Hippocrates says that bad air and earthquakes are the fault.

.. caused by a bad constellation from Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

The only thing they agree on, is that there is twelve hours of incubation.

And the only suggested cure is ... lots of laughs.

They all knew as much about the plague as the falcon of the Shah.

Twelve o'clock, gentlemen.

Twelve o'clock.

Listen. His Majesty wants the Madrasa the Shah accompanies on his hunting trip.

Tell him we are sorry can not join.

You refuse to obey?

We are Hakims, not hunters.

I will pass on your answer.

I know.

Everyone thinks, "why stay and risk my life

... with the control of an incurable disease? "

Everyone must find his own answer.

Those who want to go, now go with my blessing.

The others will fight with me. Until we win.

Or be overcome.

Since when do we have blinds?

The 12 hours are almost over.

May the Almighty save us.

Should not you hunt with the Shah risk a place of your life?

And then always reminded of Mirdin and you

what a bad doctor and coward I am.

Do you care what? a few Jews think?

It is important what my friends think of me.

Help. Help!

Put her down.

The woman says the Seljuk her spat before he died.

Master the plague will not kill anyone. The boy will live.

- The woman, those two men ... - Stop.

They are going to die.

We fight for everyone's life.

Do you hear me?

For everyone.

Yes Hakim.

The soldiers close the doors. We are locked in with the plague.

Yes sir. You can go through.

Stop them.

Only members of the royal court may leave the city.

I am a member of the court.

Close the door. Stop them.

Dad, mama ... Do not worry. It will be over in a few days.

- Watch yourself. - You too.

Mirdin, Kappara has left his home.

- Bar None Kappara has left the city? - Yes, yes.

Jesse.

The water is good against the fever, is not it?

You would be a good hakim.

- So this is your good Jew? - Apparently.

- Would you leave her like that? - No, and not a single self-respecting man.

Tie her down.

She can not scratch the sores. They must burst automatically.

- Why can not we cut them away? - The root is too deep.

Who says that?

Hippocrates themselves. He compares them with the roots of a tree.

Has he seen them with his own eyes?

Do you doubt Hippocrates?

You taught me to doubt everything, hakim.

Whatever the source is.

Deeper.

What if people are different from dogs?

- What if they are not so deep with us? - No.

Hakim we have enough bodies available.

That is forbidden by Allah.

Like Yahweh and Jesus Christ.

People die and we can not do anything.

How can that be the will of a God?

113.

Only today.

If we extend this to the whole city there are ...

.. probably more than a thousand deaths per day.

We empty an ocean with a thimble.

With that we have to do it nonetheless.

Sinbad the sailor has one tell the story.

The story of his life.

He kept open house for a long time

and the entertainment he offered was the very best.

Anything that can buy money he had available.

He showered his guests with gifts.

He had many slaves and employees.

His garden was big and beautiful.

- It's the fleas, master! - What?

The shrouds of the dead are full of fleas.

I think they spread the plague.

In the case of mortality, the body cools down and goes she looking for another victim.

So every body is a danger.

Here. Quickly.

- That's how they end up in hell. - We have no choice.

Beautiful. Now we seem to be women.

It is better than dying.

You will not be satisfied before we are all dead.

Well, all the virgins are waiting for you. How many were there?

Some say 99, others 20. And you?

No.

No?

- What sense does it have to die? - To be with God.

I prefer to prefer the virgins.

Master!

Look.

Hystrichipsyvlo.

Often found in rats.

Gentlemen.

- Let's mix a strong poison. - Yes sir.

What a stench.

You look better.

Complain the other patients not that you neglect them?

I treat everyone equally.

- Do you also read them for hours? - If it helps them.

May I ask for a favor?

Or are they already on?

It is so beautiful.

You even see the snow on the mountains.

It helps to forget.

What sin does Isfahan have? committed, that God punishes them like that?

I'm glad he saved you.

I was in my fever dreams married to you.

We had children.

Four!

Did we drive around in a barber's wagon?

No, we lived in a big city.

Where you had built a madrassa.

Only me?

I helped.

Jesse.

You have to see this.

Praised be Allah. 110. Three less than yesterday.

The number is decreasing.

You heard me. Working. Do not hang around here.

When the plague is over ... comes someone back to his lawful wife.

Mirdin. How much honor does a man have? that fleeing and abandoning his wife?

I only say what will happen. And beg stop you before it's too late.

Have you ever been madly in love?

I do not know the punishment for adultery in England. But here it is stoning.

..till death.

I make some improvements in the book.

A few extra pages of information for when we have long gone to dust.

It is your merit ... Jesse Ben Benjamin.

Bar Kappara. You live!

Jesse, did you see that?

Fast. Hakims.

Over there.

Karim.

Do not look at me like that.

Where I am going are the rivers of wine,

and women ...

Women are more beautiful than in the harem of the Shah.

Maybe there is even a redhead.

God gives us life

and God takes it back.

Why does He always take more than He gives?

Looking for reasons to do not go home.

Jesse, I wish you one live happily ever after.

You deserve it.

Blessed are you, Lord,

king of the universe,

Who has blessed us with His commandments

and has saved us from the fever.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

On survival.

In honor of Karim.

In honor of our friend.

If the world was entitled,

I would bow to you.

But it is not so.

Stand up.

Stand up, Isfahan heroes.

We have to go to a party.

A little wine?

Unfortunately.

Why so depressed?

You saved us. You would be stunned must be through our gratitude.

And if not, then of my wine.

- Thank you. - Have fun, Englishman.

My father believed that feelings and emotions,

a real leader is not worthy.

As a child, he tried them out to remove my heart,

I had to witness executions.

I saw convicts beg for their lives.

I saw the sword coming down and the blood splashing.

I saw swarms of flies on broken bodies.

But eventually,

I got used to it. The sight, the smell, the screaming.

After a while I did not feel anything anymore.

My father had managed to die as an object of study.

As a daily work, or art.

And now I am the Shah, king of all that is.

To feel the king of nothingness.

What was your friend's name, the hero?

Karim.

I'll be your new friend, Jesse Ben Benjamin.

And maybe ever over cry your death.

When Aristotle said that the world had no beginning,

he did not say that there was no creator.

He only wanted to plunder the creator of the charge.

My apologies, Jesse.

- Why? - You do not seem interested in Aristotle.

When the plague came

we were as powerless as it is beach for the advance of the sea.

The tide flooded us and took the people,

and we could not do anything.

- We saved too. - Not enough ... not enough.

You ask for a medicine that only Allah can give.

Or your Lord.

Do you ever doubt your calling?

Every morning and every evening.

I work too hard in between think about it.

New patients have arrived.

You can choose one broken hip, worms

or a terminal patient with side disease.

Life, Jesse, fun or not, continues. That's how it goes.

Good morning, Sir.

I am Jesse Ben Benjamin and with you I want to treat you.

Call me Qasim.

I give you something against the pain, Qasim.

Will I be able to talk to you too?

No, the opium numbs the senses.

Then I reject your friendly offer.

I can fall off the ladder.

The ladder?

The stairs that my soul must take to paradise.

He is very narrow and you fall easy from there.

May I investigate you anyway and ask a few questions?

There is little time before I ...

Jesse,

You know I'm going to die, right?

Yes.

I did not want to scare you.

Do you want to do me a favor?

When I'm gone,

take my body to the tower and leave it for birds.

Do you not want to be buried or cremated?

The followers of Zoroaster give our bodies to the vultures.

They cleanse our soul from materialism.

What about the resurrection?

Muslims.

Jews.

Christians

They are worried about their bodies.

They do not trust their own doctrine.

They doubt the immortality of the soul

and want to take their bones,

in case that.

So you do not make yourself worry about your body?

Why would God worry about the shell,

if he can get the fruit inside?

Jesse ...

Jesse ...

Thank you.

I hope you find your paradise, friend.

Mother, feel sorry for me.

It has been a long time since we slept together.

You will have to wait.

Why?

My days are impure.

My husband would be dirty.

Still?

Sorry.

No problem.

I will ask the servants one bed in the other room.

The lungs are,

a big circle in which the heart lies,

with the belly in front.

There is a tube that runs from the throat

to the lungs and the stomach.

So: Lungs.

Heart.

Stomach.

Tube.

Why does Allah have us punished with the plague?

Why did our women have to and children die?

And I tell you.

It is the sins that are daily being committed at the university

where wicked sully our city.

Allah wants us to open our eyes and the look at the enemy in the face.

He gives us knowledge and wisdom.

His grace allows us to recognize who is responsible for our misery.

Mirdin, what is happening?

- Where were you all night? - At work in the library.

The whole city is on stilts. The mullahs took to the streets.

You're on the wrong side, Davout.

Perhaps.

One day a Koranic school will be established become within these unholy walls.

And if Allah wants it, I will be dean.

I bring the word of God, father of all Seljuks.

I give my sword, defender of peace.

The believers of Isfahan need your help.

You promised me a rebellion, longing for a strong ruler.

When a man dies of thirst he is hungry for water.

- Are you ready for what will come? - Is not order better than chaos?

Is righteousness, no matter what, no better than no. - Of course.

Under the Shah is the City of Isfahan,

adrift in the desert

decaying in vice and apostasy.

But if the Seljuks Shah and his Jews expel,

we convert Isfahan to true faith,

and rebuild it. - And the Seljuks?

They can conquer all Persia. Isfahan is the first step.

And the father of the Seljuks will be the father of all.

And everyone will kneel before him everywhere for thousands of years.

Expect my army in ten days.

It's a great honour.

Jesse Ben Benjamin, You must come with us.

Are you known as a great hunter in England? - I once caught a rabbit.

A complete rabbit? Then you do not have to fear anything.

They were attacked. Countless people have been killed.

From the surrounding villages everyone has fled.

Finally something to drive away the boredom.

Are the Mullahs not a sufficient distraction? They want to break everything down.

When people have achieved everything and are bored,

they soon grant themselves barbarism.

And the Seljuks? Are they your barbarism?

Look.

The blood is still fresh.

He is beautiful.

Catch him Lord. Take him to your palace.

Then he becomes fat and old in a golden cage?

No, he deserves a glorious death.

I will not deny him.

- Lord, what are you going to do? - Quiet, Englishman.

Animals that people eat have a lot of respect for each other.

Has Allah ever been an animal created more glorious than you?

Your eyes are still of this world, Jesse Ben Benjamin.

The other world is much better.

Only the way of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

You have pain. I have to investigate you.

Our Lord is health itself.

Every disease fears him.

Go ahead, calm down your wish.

Are very nice, sir, but ...

But...

The female body is not attractive to you.

Am I right?

I have to leave.

Only the Shah can end an audience.

- Are you the Shah? - No.

You refuse to smoke opium.

You refuse my women.

You get bored after one day.

How could I believe you deserved my friendship?

Thank you so quickly.

She has been unclean for weeks. And this morning she collapsed.

And she is getting heavier. I worry.

May I investigate your wife privately.

Of course.

I want to congratulate your husband.

But there is no reason for that, right?

You know who to congratulate you.

- Your husband will take you out. - That's what I prefer.

Do not be naive.

He will hand you over to the older one and they will try you

- and we know that sentence. - I want to go home.

This is your only chance.

You have to sleep with your husband tonight.

- I can not do that. - It must.

Otherwise you are dead. Just like that in you.

- She is healed. - For real?

- She will fulfill her marital duty. - Thank you, Mirdin.

I can not thank you enough.

I'm back friend. Let's work.

Rebecca?

Rebecca?

Rebecca?

I always knew you were a trickster.

But I never thought that you would cut open the dead.

Get him.

Jesse.

Rebecca.

It is time to tell your secret.

You do not have the right to arrest me The Shah will punish you.

The Shah's time is over. Now there is only God.

I wanted a godly life with your life.

But you have dishonored me.

- And I loved you, Rebecca. - You bought me.

You're breaking my heart. Did you say that? that the child was mine.

I would have been a good father.

The elders are waiting for you, master.

- Did you make a decision? - The law is clear.

May our verdict erase the shame of your house.

Mirdin!

They condemned Rebecca for adultery. She will be dead tomorrow.

You promised me that you would be a good Jew. And would not approach her.

But you have dishonored her and now she expects a child.

What did you do, Jesse?

Let the witness Davout Hossein stand.

These men have a crime against Allah,

They have contaminated a body.

What evidence do you have for your accusation?

They documented their misdeeds.

Drawings of the interior.

That Hakim Ibn Sinai and his Jewish student have cut open for this purpose.

Where did you get these drawings?

From the house of Ibn Sina, which I searched after his arrest.

Liar.

I made the drawings. You took them away from me.

Are you sure they do not result from your imagination ...

... or an opium hallucination?

Look for yourself.

This is the unholy Madrassa.

This is the face of the Jews who study there!

This is the face of their wicked professor.

No.

I only dissected the corpse.

You could not have done that without his permission.

Even if Ibn Sina is not it knife or pen used,

Ibn Sina was involved.

There can only be a statement are for such a cruel crime.

The judge will be the two sentenced to death.

No. You make a mistake.

This is the most enlightened mind of this time.

That's how it is when you're Jews in the city.

They poison the souls. They undermine our faith.

I am not Jewish.

I am not Jewish.

I am not Jewish! I am not Jewish!

What?

I am not a Jew.

The Jewish community is not to blame for this.

I'm not called Jesse Ben Benjamin.

My name is Rob Cole.

I am a christian.

I was baptized in an English church

on behalf of the Father,

the son,

and the Holy Spirit.

Great show.

It's the truth.

Will we check it?

Seems like a Jew.

Enough of this farce. Take him.

- According to the law, we have to stoning her. - No.

She has deceived you. Another punishment is not possible.

And the child? Is it God's will to kill an unborn child?

Is there no other solution? I can disown her.

The child is not yours. - But innocent. Do you care about the bastard of an Englishman?

A Christian who became a Jew to be my student.

Did you accept me differently?

The body that you cut open and signed, was it a Jew? A muslim?

a Christian? A Zoroastri r?

It was the body of a man, like all of us.

The only body that I know.

Forgive me.

How can I forgive you, my dear student,

to whom God gave this unique talent.

You owed medicine to grow old and gray, Rob Cole.

It was your duty to last life and many to heal.

But you have been reckless.

And now you will have to die for that.

How does it look?

In our?

It is both ...

gorgeous ...

..and frightening.

Continue.

- I saw the heart. - Describe it.

It has two rooms and one unbridgeable wall in between.

- How does the blood pass? - By the lungs, I think.

Then all our theories are over the bloodstream error?

Master.

Nothing is as stated in the books.

Nothing.

Tell.

Do not skip any detail.

There seemed to be an inflammation. Like a toe or something.

Inside. And I think that this has killed him.

You made me call.

The lawsuit stopped me.

I've heard it.

First preacher, and now judge.

What else will you do?

I serve Allah wherever he sends me.

Quite proud of a humble servant.

I would give your head to you have to lay feet.

But I will give you the pleasure of it not award martyrdom.

You brought me here to say what you do not want for fear?

Release Ibn Sina. Immediately.

Unless you are the ruler of Isfahan, you can not speak justice.

Revoke Allah's judgment would be blasphemy.

That requires more courage than I have.

Someone who is not afraid of the wrath of God.

Or the Seljuk army that now stands in front of the walls.

Such a person can forgive Ibn Sina, but I can not ... and do not want it either.

Lock the doors. Everyone inside.

Thank you, Master,

for everything you've taught me.

Thanks, Rob Cole,

for everything you have learned.

Come with me!

Bring them closer.

The hakims ...

.. are all agreed. I have side disease.

I will not do the next sunrise experience more.

Only you have the cause of the disease seen with your own eyes.

Cut me open and remove the cause.

That is not possible.

- You did it before. - On a dead, Sun of the People.

When the Sun of the People goes down tonight will conquer the Seljuks.

and the mullahs will all kill that is in their way.

Especially the Jews.

Or can a Christian do it fate of the Jews do not care?

I agree.

But you have to help me first.

The husband must throw the first stone.

The law dictates it.

It is your Holy Duty, Bar Kappara.

If you are weak, Bar Kappara .. .. we have to do it.

Stop! This woman is under the protection of the Shah.

Release her immediately.

Who is Mirdin Askari?

Here.

Mirdin! Where is Rebecca?

By my mother.

We need your help.

Why would I be a liar and help traitor?

The Shah has side illness.

Then you do not need anyone's help. He will die.

Master?

We operate the Shah and remove the disease.

Are you crazy?

Yes, a little bit. You are next.

Send your men away.

Someone has to punish you if you fail.

You can not survive your beloved Shah.

- Would you? - Never. I would die of boredom.

- The stomach. - I see.

Englishman.

Tonight you are the Shah

and I am your subject.

We do not have much time.

The Shah will deploy his men here. And here.

And we place our soldiers on the hill. And wait ... here.

It is the sins of the Jews. They only seek their advantage.

And hide underneath the protection of that man ...

..which permits all sins.

Our friends, the Seljuks need our help.

They try the walls of our prison break open.

We must clean it with fire from the inside.

May HaShem be with us during this time of need and danger.

Our enemies are against us.

Give strength to our church, Lord.

Help your children to stand as one.

Now...

..we can throw stones to the right people.

Master, give me the knife.

Keep the wound open.

Do you see it?

Too much blood.

Is the heart in order?

Strong.

Mirdin! Dazzle him!

I think...

Master, the scalpel.

We must apply the bandage.

Mirdin. I know that I am you and your family betrayed.

This is not about me. You have insulted my God.

And yet He was with us the operation, do not you think?

How could we have done it alone?

Then He is less angry with me than you? - Yes.

Hard to believe, but ... he embraces the greatest sinners.

De Verhevene wakes up.

You have to stay calm, otherwise the wound will open.

I'm thirsty.

Here. Fast.

Burn them like rats! Smoke them out!

My shah. If you want to recover you have to rest.

The time of my downfall has already been written.

Thanks to you, the angel of death ...

do not find me in bed as an old man ..

but on the battlefield, like a king.

The Army of the Seljuks is one hundred times as strong as mine.

You gave me a gift.

Now I give you one.

Take your people to the east gate.

My guards will accompany you.

There you will find the road to the mountains.

How will you remember me, Englishman?

A friend or a tyrant?

Both.

Soon, the guards are gone. Now the road is safe.

Here.

Come on, we have to get along. Fast!

Fast.

This is everything, master. What should we do now?

To the east gate.

Do not stop until the city is only a speck.

Go to the east gate!

Perfect?

Let us read some verses writing a poem.

Leave us a place on one conquering painting.

- Where is Ibn Sina? - I saw him at the madrassa.

Ibn Sina?

In my dreams,

I hoped that students here to study for a thousand years.

And honor my memory.

Such vanity should be punished by flames.

Another ruler will be the rebuild university.

I am too old to flatter and bow.

What have you done?

Call it your final exams, Rob Cole.

Because there is nothing to be afraid of.

Death is nothing more than one threshold that is exceeded.

To the silence after the last heartbeat.

Float away,

with the last breath,

to eternal peace.

Correct my mistakes.

Add your diagrams.

And show the world what you have learned here.

Hakim Robert Cole.

Master.

Now do what I tell you and go for once.

Can we go home now?

Where to?

Wherever.

Now my house is with you.

I already miss him.

No one is dead as long as you remember them.

The spirit lives on.

But it's up to you to keep that alive.

How do I do that?

Be a great doctor.

I have seen everything with these eyes what God put on this world.

Terrible things that do not man should behold.

But nowhere do I have prettier girls seen here in London.

Come here. Listen and shut up!

What is it? Are not there sick here?

All patients are in hospital.

- In what? - In the hospital.

- Built by a doctor from the East. - The East? Which doctor?

Dr. Cole!

Cole?

He, his wife and a group of Jews. They can heal everything.

Rat!

Here.

Take me there. Tell me about it.

I went for a fever.

You get a good bed to sleep, hot food and magical medicine.

Someone plays music there.

And then?

Dr. Cole comes every night to see you.

And if you ask, he juggles and tells fantastic stories.

With lions and horses,

with bumps on their backs.

And falcons that are someone's skull can pierce with their beak.

- And his wife, how is she? - Magnificent.

- Smart ass. Are you old, nine years old? - No. I am ten years old.

FroMi2u, Based on a translation from Alwin1971 and "B re"