Animation from cinema 4d to unreal

Hey all,
I have created a relatively simple animation in cinema 4d and would like to import it into unreal engine now.
the animation uses only the bend deformer to deform something similar to a plane. When I export my animation as fbx, I do not get any animation in unreal at all. If I export all data from Cinema4d as .abc, there is an animation, but this is completely wrong or does not seem to be completely played / presented.
Do you have any idea what the reason could be? For a university project, I urgently need help in this regard and I hope I can count on you.

Thank you very much in advance

For future reference, I believe you have to use Alembic to get deformed object out of cinema into Unreal.

Cheers!