Fanfares of Love

Fanfares of Love
Fanfares of Love
Directed by	Kurt Hoffmann
Written by	Michael Logan; Heinz Pauck; Robert Thoeren;
Produced by	Harald Braun
Starring	Dieter Borsche; Georg Thomalla; Inge Egger;
Cinematography	Richard Angst
Edited by	Claus von Boro
Music by	Franz Grothe
Production; company	Neue Deutsche Filmgesellschaft
Distributed by	Schorcht Filmverleih;
Release date	14 September 1951
Running time	91 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Fanfares of Love (German: Fanfaren der Liebe) is a 1951 West German comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Dieter Borsche, Georg Thomalla and Inge Egger. It is a remake of the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love. It was a major hit and in 1953 a sequel Fanfare of Marriage was released, showing the further adventures of the main characters.

Production

The story was based on a screenplay written by

Nazi takeover of power, it was developed into a French film directed by Richard Pottier

.

It was shot at the

Location filming also took place at Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps

.

Hollywood remake

The film was remade in Hollywood in 1959 by Billy Wilder as Some Like It Hot. Thoeren screened the 1951 German film for Wilder, who secured the remake rights. In contrast to the contemporary setting of the German film, Wilder shifted the action back to the 1920s. He later tried to downplay the extent to which he was influenced by the original, describing it as "a very low budget, very third-class German picture".^[1]

In the German film synchronisation of Some Like It Hot, Georg Thomalla served as the voice for Jack Lemmon in his role as the second musician - exactly the role which Thomalla played eight years earlier in this film.