F.P.1

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F.P.1

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Directed by Karl Hartl
Written by Curt Siodmak
Walter Reisch
Starring Hans Albers
Sybille Schmitz
Release date(s) 1932 (German version)
1933 (En.& Fr. versions)
Running time 114 min.
Country Weimar Germany
Language German
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F.P.1, or F.P.1 Doesn't Respond was the name of a novel written by noted science fiction and fantasy writer/director Curt Siodmak, best known as the creator of the The Wolf Man.

The novel was turned into three films over 1932 to 1933, directed by Karl Hartl — one each in English, French, and German. Filming multiple versions in different languages was common in the early sound film period.

Written after Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, the plot concerned a permanent air station in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

The German version was the last German film that either Siodmak or Peter Lorre, who played a secondary character, would make in Germany before the war. It premiered on 22 December 1932, just 39 days before Hitler took power.

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