TEHRAN - Head of the Strategic Research Center Ali Akbar Velayati lashed out at the German film “The Physician”, which portrays a “distorted” image of the renowned Iranian scientist Avicenna.

Germans are not qualified to comment on Islamic and Iranian traditional medicine or make a movie on the life of Avicenna, Velayati, himself a physician, told the Tasnim News Agency Sunday.

Velayati said the movie makers have lacked ample knowledge about the subject matter of the movie.

The Physician is a 2013 German adventure film based on the novel of the same name by Noah Gordon. The movie focuses on an orphan from 11th-century English town whose mother died of a mysterious illness. The boy vows to study medicine and decides to travel to Persia, where he meets the Iranian scientist Avicenna.

The film distorts Iran’s medical history and the personality of Avicenna. It is shown in the film that Iranian clergymen betray the Iranian city of Isfahan to drive the Jews and such figures as Avicenna, who is depicted as a blasphemous secular, out of the city.


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