The Light of Love

The Light of Love (1991)

Family

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.

Director: Gunther Scholz

Casts

	Sven Jansen as Bengel
	Eva Vejmělková as Reglindis
	Rolf Hoppe as Margraf
	Petar Slabakov as Schwarzer Reiter
	Dietrich Mechow as Arzt
	Linde Sommer as Äbtissin
	Bärbel Bolle as Nonne
	Anita Herbst as Nonne
	Regina Keller as Nonne
	Janine Kress as Nonne
	Maren Schumacher as Nonne
	Gisa Stoll as Nonne
	Ursula Sukup as Nonne
	Tereza Pergnerová as Gigi
	Gudrun Okras as Amme
	Manfred Zetzsche as Kaiser Karl
	Peter Bause as König
	Hellena Büttner as
	Paul Berndt as Gigis Vater
	Marc Hetterle as
	Romeo Riemer as
	Henning Orphal as
	Reiner Kunze as
	Gerd-Gunthart Hellwig as
	Jörg Schüttauf as Mönch
	Klaus Manchen as Slawenführer
	Joachim Lätsch as Bauer
	Wera Paintner as Nonne
	Gertraud Kreissig as Nonne

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