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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: Poliorketes on 04 October 2007, 05:08:40 PM

Title: F.P.1 does not answer
Post by: Poliorketes on 04 October 2007, 05:08:40 PM

Today Amazon delivered the 1932 movie F.P.1 does not answer (F.P.1 antwortet nicht) in the german Version with Hans Albers. Though not really a good film (Albers has been much better in other movies), it has one of the best pulp stories ever - the original story was written by SF-pioneer Curt Siodmak (Donovan's Brain), who also wrote the scripts for classics like the wolf man.

The story is about a floating airfield (FP = Flugplattform / flight plattform) 500m long and 15m wide in the atlantic ocean to make regular transatlantic passenger flights possible. There is sabotage involved and of course lots of great aircraft - though sadly most of the time is spent with a rather lukewarm love story. The highlights are Albers flight to the platform in a Junkers F13 and the best auirplanes of the time coming to rescue FP1 - the Do-X and a Junkers G38 amongst them.

The movie was made in three versions - a german, english an french with different leading actors: Hans Albers, Conradt Veidt and Charles Boyer. Sadly, the DVD included only the german and is missing a 13 minutes making of from 1934, too. Expecially the Conrad Veidt version would be interesting, as he's been a really good actor.

The flight platform in the movie was mostly a model, of course - but for some shots they needed the real thing. So they encased a small island in the baltic sea with corrugated iron!

Great stuff for a remake with todays technology - and for wargames.

Some trivia:
#The main theme of the score is the airmans song/Fliegerlied of Extrabreit-fame, who made it a german new wave classic in the early 80ies.
#The leading actress in the german version was Sybille Schmitz. She reached stardom through this movie but is nowadays best remembered for "Die Sehnsucht der Veronica Voss", a Faßbender-movie about her later years.

Title: F.P.1 does not answer
Post by: Westfalia Chris on 04 October 2007, 06:31:11 PM

Oh yes, that one´s a classic, even if it isn´t exactly a cineastic masterpiece.

Title: F.P.1 does not answer
Post by: Grimm on 04 October 2007, 07:47:08 PM

never hear about it ,do you have a link ?

Title: F.P.1 does not answer
Post by: fastolfrus on 05 October 2007, 12:17:05 AM

The best I could find was

http://www.cine-studies.net/r5b3_2p/gallerie.html

Interesting to see Peter Lorre in the middle there, but the gallery lacks any flying shots that I could see althouh there is one fairly clear picture of FP1

Title: F.P.1 does not answer
Post by: Grimm on 05 October 2007, 05:34:47 AM

cool thanks

Title: F.P.1 does not answer
Post by: Poliorketes on 05 October 2007, 09:27:52 AM

try wikipedia, it has an article.