F.P.1 is a 1932 film directed by Karl Hartl.
Karl Hartl was an Austrian film director. Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda. As a production manager, he in the 1920s accompanied Korda to Berlin, until in 1926... he returned to Vienna to work for his former class-mate director Gustav Ucicky. From 1930 he worked for Universum Film AG and gave his debut as director of Ein Burschenlied aus Heidelberg starring Hans Brausewetter and Willi Forst, with young Billy Wilder as a screenwriter. Together with Luis Trenker he directed the Gebirgsjäger drama Berge in Flammen in 1931. He then experimented with other genres, for example the comedy Die Gräfin von Monte Cristo with Brigitte Helm and Gustaf Gründgens, and in the same year achieved his final breakthrough with the flying drama film F.P.1 antwortet nicht written by Curt Siodmak and produced by Erich Pommer, with Hans Albers, Peter Lorre and Sybille Schmitz in the leads.more