Synopsis

After separating from her husband, the Berlin teacher Anna Wiegand turns her back on the big city to take over the management of the elementary school in an idyllic Black Forest village. This brings her closer to her daughter Caroline, who is studying in Freiburg and is now trying to benefit from her mother's cooking skills and washing machine. With a lot of enthusiasm, the dedicated teacher Anna wants to bring a breath of fresh air into the dusty everyday school life. But her unorthodox ideas offend her colleagues, who are skeptical about anything new. The stale school secretary Brigitte Schäufele in particular, not enthusiastic about the introduction of the computer, never misses an opportunity to use her good connections to the local hairdressing salon to spread wild rumors about the new director's strange teaching methods. Anna's meeting with her landlord, Count Alexander von Schönberg, doesn't go too smoothly either. When his snarling hound, her long-haired cat E.T. hunts for the nearest tree, Anna also extends her claws and shows the snooty aristocrat that she is not impressed by his charm and noble title. When she discovered that von Schönberg's daughter Lilly, of all people, had a reading disability that the smart girl had been able to cover up by learning by heart, the Count didn't believe a word the new teacher said. Together with other concerned parents, von Schönberg starts a signature campaign against the uncomfortable headmistress. When many parents then deregister their children, the school even faces the threat of closure. Luckily, the resourceful caretaker Janosch has a convincing argument against the closure. When the students form a spontaneous demo, the bad mood towards Anna changes. The lovingly staged Heimatfilm "Schöne Aussicht" offers a lot of comedic elements in addition to a lot of local color. Anica Dobra as the teacher and Heio von Stetten as the landowner play a dog-and-cat couple. The film was shot in the tranquil town of Münstertal in the southern Black Forest and also in Staufen, Freiburg and the surrounding area.