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- As a housewife, wife and manager of a family business, Anne Stadler has everything under control. Accordingly, the wedding of her only daughter Lisette should be a dream event that she was not allowed to experience herself. With enthusiasm, Anne organizes a first-rate social event in the tranquil Black Forest village, with a church blessing, many guests and a big bachelorette party. But in the middle of the preparations she catches her husband of the gods Gerd in the family's own sawmill having an affair. For the shocked Anne it is now clear that she will only make a good face for the bad game until her daughter's big day, after which she is gone. Lisette would have preferred a modest wedding in a small group, but doesn't know how to tell her mother. With the arrival of Arno Freywald, the allegedly missing father of the groom Daniel, the cards are reshuffled. The notorious impostor should actually be in the kittchen, but the tax investigator Meyer has entered into a deal with the crook: Arno wants to experience his son's wedding at large and in return reveal the names of tax evaders worth millions to the tax office. Saving Stadler's marriage becomes an affair of the heart for Arno. As a woman who understands women, he advises Gerd to reawaken his wife's old feelings. The plan works perfectly, Anne actually falls in love - not with Gerd, but with Arno. When the bride and groom also get into a crisis, the chaos is perfect.
- 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.
- In the style of Gogol's Inspector General: When a traveling salesman arrives in the car of a government official, the powers that be of a small town think he's the auditor and try to throw him off the track about their disorderly finances.
- Escaping small-town America, to Germany and beyond, the filmmaker struggles with cultural, political, and familial awakenings in this personal documentary. Other world travelers' uncannily similar stories weave a broader picture that is emotionally more engrossing and insightful, making her adventure both familiar and personal. A film of quiet transformation, THE OTHER SIDE OF MY RAINBOW illustrates how growth and understanding challenges ordinary people.