A highly entertaining Sci Fi German classic A year before Germany would change. Hans was good as the aviator flier Ellison wanting to encourage the development of the plat form,by stealing it and putting it in the office of his old friend Droste ,played by Paul Hartman.Sybil Schmitz plays the Heiress to the main company,whom she has a percentage of investment in it, that same year she was in Vampyr.A pudgy and blond hair Peter Lorre plays his sidekick and photo journalist.Well eventually this platform is built.Sybil for a while has Romantic interest in Hans,but,she has a conflicting interest in Hartmann.Well after everything is built ,right before it opens,Herman Speelman, part of the ship , all of a sudden declares mutiny and shoots Paul Hartmann and start to Gas everyone.When Sybil pleads, to Hans, to take her to f.p.i. to find out what happen to Paul,he agrees.When both arrive and Hermann take off, Sybil shows her true color about Paul,he's only injured.After waking everyone up the crew want to quit .So they leave except a few.But when Paul Hartmann takes his pale out to leave ,Hans takes off to go to a ship and to inform ,on radio about the availability of the platform for planes.It finally does business,Rudolph Platte shows up as a radio operator ,who is shot .This was worth watching and collecting too at Grape vine video,which also has English version, and ,I think Germnwarfilms.com 8/25/13

F.P.1 Antwortet Nicht is a piece of science fiction from the dying days of the Weimar Republic that has dated poorly compared to the likes of Metropolis or even Die Frau im Mond. Like much modern Hollywood "science fiction" it is, in fact, just an adventure tale with some futuristic elements attached, in this case, an artificial island in the mid-Atlantic. There is no real satire or estrangement effect present here. It is this lack of depth that undermines this tale. There is no commentary on the social and economic crisis in Germany nor is there anyway of looking at humanity from an outsider's viewpoint, which Darko Suvin for one considers the defining aspect of true science fiction.Coupled with this is the weak acting and hackneyed plot making this film a generally-weak effort.The main value one could derive from this film nowadays would stem from viewing it from the perspective of an "alternative history" tale. It does still convey some sense of wonder from its impressive sets and cinematography. If one is prepared to view it on those terms, one could gain some enjoyment from the film but, otherwise, this is very much of its era and deservedly forgotten.

The German version of this sci-fi yarn comes a big disappointment all around. Chief liability is Hans Albers, a ham of the first water, who is not only allowed to dominate every scene but indulged with more dialogue than all the rest of the players put together. He just never stops talking. Exotic Sybille Schmitz manages to collar a few nice close-ups, but Peter Lorre is wasted. Most of the time, Lorre simply serves as a listening post for the garrulous Albers.Oddly, the Droste character (played with reasonable force by Paul Hartmann) has even less footage here than in the cut American version. Indeed, despite the amazing fact that this German version runs 40 minutes longer, the action scenes are more complete and far more convincing in the 74-minute edit. The little bit of extra footage in which Albers is not featured are merely propaganda shots of the German air force conquering the skies.

This big-budget technothriller-romance was state-of-the-art for 1932, featuring a top-notch cast (especially Hans Albers as the rowdy, untamed hero and Peter Lorre as his long-suffering sidekick) and a lickety-split plotline in which industrial sabotage, sexual politics and the psychology of heroism are artfully intertwined. An English-subtitled video version of this SF classic is long overdue.