Boo Ali Sina
Writer, Director & Editor: Keyhan Rahgozar
Director of Photography: Farrokh Majidi
Music: Farhad Fakhreddini
Cast: Amin Tarokh, Firooz Behjat Mohammadi, Esmaeel Fakhraie
Released in 1987
This film recounts the life of the great Iranian scientist and physician Hossein Ibn Abdolah lbn Sina. It traces Avicenna's life from an early age. When he shows precocious sign of exceptionally superior intelligence to the time when he becomes a court physician. His constant protests against the injustice that is done to the poor people get him into trouble with the monarchs and he is imprisoned on several occasions. He is released from his last captivity through the intervention of his occasion. He is released from his last captivity through the intervention of his brother. But by that time he is sick and dejected and dies soon afterwards.
