The Light of Love
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804, Thuringia. An orphan boy, called Bengel, lives in a monastery and is teased by the nuns because of his ugliness. He nurses a black rider, who is shunned by everyone and is said to have the plague, back to health. The rider tells him about the missing Bogumil, son of the Slavic king Slavomir, who was to marry Reglindis, the daughter of the Margrave of Thuringia, by order of Charlemagne. And he asks Bengel about his origins. Bengel now believes he is Bogumil. He goes to the castle and meets a beautiful girl who also thinks he is beautiful. It is Reglindis, she is blind. The girl senses the boy's inner beauty and is very fond of him. Her father, however, wants to kill him. Bengel narrowly escapes death twice, the Black Rider impressively proves his identity with Bogumil and finally there is a happy ending.
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Cast
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Sven Jansen
Bengel
Eva Vejmělková
Reglindis
Known for
DragonHeart
Gunther Scholz
Claus Neumann
Rolf Hoppe
Margraf
Known for
Three Wishes for Cinderella
Mephisto
Karin Kusche
Petar Slabakov
Schwarzer Reiter
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Press Center
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Friedbert Wissmann
Dietrich Mechow
Arzt
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Die Stunde der Töchter
Die Gäste der Mathilde Lautenschläger
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Äbtissin
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Lotte in Weimar
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Bärbel Bolle
Nonne
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Banale Tage
Dach überm Kopf
Anita Herbst
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Banale Tage
Gunther Scholz Director · Wolf Müller Writer Henrik Hertz Story
First release February 28, 1991 · Produced in XG · Production DEFA
Production
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Production
DEFA
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XG
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Original title
Das Licht der Liebe
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · February 28, 1991
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