FP1 does not answer

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Movie
Original title FP1 does not answer
FP 1 does not answer Logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1932
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Karl Hartl
script Walter Reisch
Kurt Siodmak
production Erich Pommer
music Allan Gray
camera Günther Rittau
Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
Otto Baecker
cut Willy Zeyn
occupation

German version:

English version:
( Floating Platform 1 Does Not Answer )

French version:
( IF1 Ne Repond Plus )

The science fiction film F.P.1 does not answer was made in 1932 for UFA under the direction of Karl Hartl . The black and white film is based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Kurt Siodmak . Three versions were shot in different languages. Hans Albers , Sybille Schmitz and Paul Hartmann play the leading roles in the German-language film adaptation .

The first performance in Germany took place on December 22, 1932 in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin .

action

Kapitänleutnant Droste would like to build a flight platform in the middle of the ocean in order to offer the pilots of the intercontinental flights a stopover possibility for refueling and for repairs on their aircraft. With the help of the pilot Ellissen he succeeds in winning the management of the Lennartz works for his project. Ellissen, who has been dating Claire Lennartz, a sister of the owners, is reluctant to marry and is looking for a new adventure. Meanwhile the platform is being built under the direction of Droste.

After two years a city on the ocean was created with an airfield, hangars, hotels and shopping centers. The connection to the flight platform is lost during a storm. The last thing that could be heard over the phone was gunshots and screams. The storm continues and it takes the best pilot to fly to FP 1 (short for "flight platform 1"). Ellissen, who has now realized that Claire means much more to him, is depressed because Claire has now moved away from him. Nevertheless, he lets her persuade him to fly with her to the platform. The two reach the island and survive a crash landing.

The FP1 crew fell victim to a saboteur who stunned them with gas. Before chief engineer Damsky fled by boat, he opened the valves so that FP1 threatens to sink. Claire finds the seriously injured Droste and takes care of him. Ellissen realizes that he has lost Claire for good. After a short time, however, he gets up and takes off on a plane to get help. When he finally sees a ship, he jumps out of his plane, is brought on board by the ship's crew and can call for help over the radio. A fleet of ships and planes set out to rescue FP1.

production

Language versions, filming

The film was shot in three versions at the same time: German, English and French. The three actors Albers, Veidt and Boyer each gave the character of Ellissen a different character, which corresponded to the different mentality of the actors. Albers was the solid, gripping daredevil who, despite all the rumbling, remains modest. While Boyers Ellissen manages almost entirely without bravado, Veidt plays the gentleman sports aviator who practices restraint. These different representations also result in different playing times of the versions: The English and French versions are each 25 minutes shorter than the German.

The shooting took place from 15 August 1932 to 15 December 1932 in Hamburg at the Howaldt shipyard , around Greifswald , in Cuxhaven , in Warnemünde and in the film studios of the UFA in Neubabelsberg instead, today's Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam .

Film music

In this film, a sailor choir sings the famous aviator song Flieger, greet me the sun for the first time , the recording with Hans Albers was released on record. The song, recorded on July 7, 1932, was composed by Allan Gray and the lyrics of Walter Reisch .

publication

The French version of FP1 premiered on February 24, 1933 in Marivaux in Paris , the English on April 3, 1933. The film was first broadcast on German television on April 17, 1964 by the DFF , and on ZDF on August 15, 1970 in program.

In 1933 the film was also released in Sweden, Denmark and Finland. It was also shown in the UK under the title FP1 Fails to Reply and in the USA under the title FP1 Doesn't Answer .

The film was released on DVD on April 2, 2009 .

criticism

“Pioneers of technical progress, the invention of a floating airfield, saboteurs and a woman whose decision is fairly recognized by the rivals are the characters and motifs in the game about a super aircraft carrier that can ultimately be saved from destruction. Prominent and quickly staged entertainment from the UFA-Tonfilm's childhood days. "

- Lexicon of International Films

On the occasion of the television premiere on ZDF on August 15, 1970 - 38 years after the world premiere - the Protestant film observer judged : “Well-made adventure film from the old Ufa from 1932, which still finds its audience today. [...] Thanks to its technical preparation and its (then) future-oriented content, the film is still worth seeing from 16 years on. "

literature

  • Kurt Siodmak : FP1 does not answer. Novel . 6th to 15th thousand. With 8 pictures from the Ufa film of the same name. Scherl, Berlin 1932, 230 pp.
  • FP1 does not answer. Images by Matern for the Ufa sound film of the same name by Kurt Siodmak . Ufa, Berlin 1932, 26 sheets
  • Fred Gehler FP1 does not respond . In Günther Dahlke, Günther Karl (Hrsg.): German feature films from the beginnings to 1933. A film guide. Henschel Verlag, 2nd edition, Berlin 1993, p. 310 ff. ISBN 3-89487-009-5
  • Three languages ​​and a sound film idea . In Oskar Kalbus: On the Becoming of German Film Art. Part 2: The sound film. Altona-Bahrfeld, 1935, p. 93 f.
  • Anke Woschech, "A song from the mechanized world" Technological fictions in early German sound film using the example of FP 1 does not answer, in: Uwe Fraunholz / Anke Woschech (ed.), Technology Fiction. Technical visions and utopias in the ultra-modern, Bielefeld 2012, pp. 247–270.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kinofenster: "The Three Lives of Babelsberg" www.kinofenster.de from February 7, 2012, accessed February 3, 2016
  2. ↑ FP1 does not answer in the Lexicon of International Films
  3. ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 350/1970.