F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and French speaking actors at the same time.
F.P.1 没有应答, F.P.1 svarar ej, I.F.1 ne répond plus
Germany
Sweden15
Germany
Sweden
1st Karl Hartl
I'm a sucker for this sort of big budget pre-war science fiction, with lavish sets and wild ideas about what the near future would look like, and F.P.1 has this in spades. The real star of the film is not Hans Albers or Sybille Schmitz, or even Peter Lorre, making a wonderful small turn as a nosy photographer. It's the F.P.1 set itself, which is an incredibly detailed model that sits in a water tank to represent the Atlantic Ocean. The Germans were exceptional at SFX during the 20s and early 30s (Metropolis etc), so it's no surprise that the detail on this single model is astonishing. You really do believe that it's the size the characters…
»Vom Nordpol zum Südpol ist's nur ein Katzensprung...« Hans Albers Techno-Drama aus der Vorkriegszeit mit dem berühmten Titeltrack, der später durch die Version der NDW-Band EXTRABREIT Karriere machte.
Der Film spricht Bände über die Technikverliebtheit der Zeit, denn ein damals noch gar nicht erfundener Flugzeugträger namens F.P.1 steht im Mittelpunkt des Streifens - und natürlich Pilotenrabauke Albers in seinen hohen Lederstiefeln und mit schicker Fliegerjacke. Ingenieurskunst als furioses Leinwandvergnügen!
F.P.1 antwortet nicht (1932) was part of a 3-film project for Karl Hartl having to shoot the story in 3 different languages with 3 separate casts. And it's a script that's well over-written with not enough thought put into the flow of things. Again the quality lays purely on the shoulder of the lead actor. In the English film it was Conrad Veidt, here it's Hans Albers that has to find that magic to keep it's pleasurable for the viewer, and I'm sure it's the same with the French version where Charles Boyer has the main role. It helps that Peter Lorre is there as a weird character, but it's oh so brief....
Part of The Month of the Subtitles challenge!
A really solid industrial melodrama, packed with some interesting characters - honestly, Photo Jonny might be the most relatable character ever - and some really decent foreshadowing and payoffs.
And it's really interesting to imagine seeing this in the eyes of the 1930s audience, rather than in the eyes of a modern one. The concept of an artificial island that would serve as a place to refuel and repair airplanes was pure speculative science. Nowadays, these oceanic airports already exist. We did create something that was once Sci-Fi. Makes you think about how quickly human technology has progressed in the last hundred years.
The film has a slower pace, but it is…
Wenn der Funker in FP1 antwortet nicht endlich „FP1 antwortet nicht“ sagt 👉👉👉👉👉👉
There are many interesting films that came out of Germany between the wars. There is almost always a modernist, if not outright featurist, theme.
"F.P.1 Doesn't Answer", for example, is a 1932 drama/romance with a touch of science fiction. The story revolves around the construction of a gigantic floating platform, F.P.1, in the mid-Atlantic ocean. This platform serves as a refueling station for long-distance airplanes, revolutionizing global air travel by allowing intercontinental travel in a miraculous 24 hours.
Modernist idea in the '20s and '30s often seemed to involve the construction of massive things, such as huge building, towering bus-like vehicles, or rocket launchers the size of cities. F.P.1 is huge. They say it is 500 meters long, which is…
"F.P.1 Doesn’t Answer is a movie entirely preoccupied with the opening horizons of the world and its technology, and the question of whether the spirit of individual people could possibly keep up with such sharp accelerations, as well as what forces might conspire to throttle such visions in the cradle."
Full review at This Island Rod:
thisislandrod.blogspot.com/2024/01/fp1-doesnt-answer-fp1-antwortet-nicht.html
The German version.
Three movies , three languages, three sets of actors, one movie set and the exact same camera shots.
To increase profits the Director shot three movies at the same time, for three different language audiences, German, English and French.
This would have been a massive operation, the extras were all the same, but they were swapping in and out the lead actors that had speaking rolls for each scene.
The biggest differences were the German and French versions added several Nationalistic songs segments. The English version had more romance and the female lead didn’t need a chauffeur to drive the car.
A huge floating airport runway is built in the middle of the Atlantic ocean and saboteurs want to sink it.
In the 30s, air travel was perilous and most aircraft of the time could not make it all the way across the ocean, thus the refueling platform.
There's elaborate miniatures, cool flying scenes and huge sets but the drama is tepid and overstuffed.
None of the actors are all that good but a very young Peter Lorre has a small part.
Watched the German version with subtitles.
Great footage of a Junkers 13, Dornier X and Junkers G38.
Film #370 of 2022.
ellisen ist ein sehr komischer charakter aber ich liebe die kulisse und wie hans albers wie ein macker umherstampft
Genialer Schachzug von Lorre, den Beruf zu wechseln, damit er in der zweiten Filmhälfte auch noch auftauchen kann.
Das letzte (und bis gestern einzige) Mal sah ich "F.P. 1 antwortet nicht" Anfang der 80er in der "ZDF Matinee" am Sonntagmorgen (da wo heute "Fernsehgarten"-Tristesse herrscht). Da befand ich den Film als spannend.
Und das ist "F.P. 1 antwortet nicht" immer noch, der übrigens zeitgleich auf Französisch mit Charles Boyer und auf Englisch mit Conrad Veidt gedreht wurde.
Hans Albers spielt darin einen Flieger-Draufgänger, der das Projekt eines befreundeten Konstrukteurs (Paul Hartmann) fördert. So kann mitten im Atlantik eine Verbindungsplattform erstehen, die Flugzeugen einen notwenigen Stopp zum Auftanken bietet,
Doch leider sind Saboteure am Werk, und F.P. 1 droht zu versinken. Zusammen mit Sibylle Schmitz reist Hans Albers zur Rettung an, mit journalistischen Interesse vom Bildreporter "Foto-Jonny" (Peter Lorre) beobachtet.
Nach Kurt Siodmak entstanden , der zusammen mit Walter Reisch das Drehbuch schrieb, inszenierte Karl Hartl den Film recht temporeich. Schön auch die Spezialeffekte.
Und unvergessen ist natürlich auch der Schlager des Films "Flieger, grüß mir die Sonne"
