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that Sonja is his daughter by presenting the necklace with the golden heart. When the king is reunited with his daughter and sees that the
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can get his wife and daughter back. The sages have predicted that, if the star begins to shine again, then the princess and the queen will also return. Sonja goes out into the woods to find the
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The wish comes true, but, as Sonja happily runs into the castle to say that the star has returned, she is seized by Ulrich's men and thrown into the castle's darkest dungeon. The old woman comes to the rescue by extracting the keys to the dungeon from the guard and leads Sonja to the king. She proves
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The film opens in a small kingdom, a place in
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Many years later, the same traveling group of jugglers return to the castle. It is
Christmas Eve again, and in the entourage is also Sonja (i.e., Gulltopp), who has become a beautiful young girl. When Sonja hears about the king's grief, she offers to find the Christmas star for the king, so that he
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When the king and queen learn that the princess has disappeared, they are sad. The queen runs desperately out into the woods to look for her. The king curses the
Christmas star, which he blames for his misfortune. But the king's curse causes the Christmas star to go out, and with it the queen
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was the guest of honor in the theater. About 75 copies of the film were produced, more than ten times as many as normal for a
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disappears. Grief descends over the land. A traveling entourage of jugglers finds
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