(Fanfaren der Liebe). Not long after this comedy was released, Billy Wilder bought the rights to remake it; the result was Some Like It Hot. The German “original” was itself a remake of a 1935 French film, but director Kurt Hoffmann took special care to capture the seamier side of German showbiz in this version of the story about two jobless young musicians who dress up as women to join an all-female band, adding a new wrinkle to their already complicated love lives. The film documents the postwar revival of interest in swing and pop music, with a score laden with American-style big band numbers and typical German pop songs of the era. Wilder would later claim that all he took from Hoffmann's film was the basic storyline and a single scene, but many viewers will note more than a passing resemblance between this and Wilder's comedy.