Matthias Habich
Date of birth: 1940-01-12
Place of birth: Gdańsk, Poland
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Matthias Habich (born 12 January 1940) is a German actor who has appeared in more than 110 film and television productions since 1965. Habich was born in Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland) and lives in Paris. In his career, he appeared in a number of internationally recognized films. In the 2001 film Enemy at the Gates about Stalingrad, he played the part of General (later Field Marshal) Friedrich Paulus. In the 2004 film Downfall, he portrayed Werner Haase. In the 2008 Oscar-winning drama The Reader he appeared as the father of the title character. Source: Article "Matthias Habich" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Beyond Silence
1996-12-18
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into
Enemy at the Gates
2001-02-28
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
Downfall
2004-09-16
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea
Nowhere in Africa
2001-12-11
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband
Chaotic Ana
2007-08-24
Ana, a teenager artist, is raised in Ibiza by her German father Klaus in a naturalist lifestyle. She
Silberhochzeit
2006-01-13
Based on a short story by Elke Heidenreich, this TV movie focuses on a couple's silver wedding party
Coup de Grâce
1976-10-21
A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
The Call of the Toad
2005-09-22
A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for ex
Half a Life
2009-04-10
A young woman is found raped and bludgeoned to death. Her father can’t reconcile himself with her de
Black for Remembrance
1995-08-09
This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is k
The Judgement
1997-12-15
The Jewish antiques dealer Siegfried Rabinovicz is on his way from New York to Hamburg where he is a
Straight for the Heart
1988-09-30
Pierre is a Montreal photojournalist who returns from Nicaragua to find that his ten-year menage a t
No Sky Limit with Africa
2005-11-10
Gordon and Catherine are happy. He feels safe with her, she divorces him for him. The couple buy a f
Duo
1990-05-16
A couple who appears to have the perfect relationship finds their future in jeopardy following a sco
Farendj
1990-01-01
A young man travels with his French girlfriend to Ethiopia. Whilst there he discovers a house in whi
À deux pas du paradis
1992-04-19
Die Rättin
1997-10-14
A drama directed by Martin Buchhorn based on the novel by Günter Grass. At the center of the film is
Und alle haben geschwiegen
2013-03-04
Between 1949 and 1975 more than 800 000 German orphans have lived their post-war years in Church Ins
The Savage Woman
1991-01-01
Marianne, a young Canadian nurse living as an expatriate in Switzerland, is traumatized by a violent
The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
1988-05-04
An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from
The Taste of Apple Seeds
2013-09-26
When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where
O Janovi a podivuhodném příteli
1990-12-24
H. Ch. Andersen's story was the basis for the narrative film 'Of John and the Wonderful Friend', in
Morgen musst du sterben
2010-12-15
Johannes Ganten, in his late 50s, known as John to his friends, leads a comfortable life as an emeri
The Last U-Boat
1993-01-02
Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Jap
Im Vorhof der Wahrheit
1974-11-26
At nine, Miroslav flees the Eastern Front alone after his mother’s disappearance. In postwar Germany
Eine halbe Ewigkeit
2012-03-30
More than fifty years have passed since Harry left his great love Elly head over heels to go to Amer
Die Toten von Hameln
2014-05-18
Choir director Johanna Bischoff and her girls choir go to a concert in their hometown Hameln. Shortl
The Reader
2008-12-10
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with
Ceasefire
2009-08-29
A 24 hours ceasefire. The situation in Falluja is devastating- no food, no medications, no help. A g
Ursula
1978-11-05
Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the O
Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck
1973-01-01
Maiden's War
1977-06-06
The three daughters of the Dessau merchant Sellmann move with their father to Prague in 1936, where
Getting a Life
2003-07-02
The Cry of the Owl
1987-12-13
Robert is magically attracted to Johanna. He observes and stalks her. Finally, the two get to know e
Waves
2005-01-21
Adapted from Eduard von Keyserling’s 1911 novel of the same title, Waves depicts both the lives and
Good-for-Nothing
1978-01-27
A young man seeks freedom and eventually gets conformed. To escape society, he wanders south. After
Deutschlandlied
1995-05-04
This three-part film tells how people in the fictional town of Königsbruck experience the end of the
Altersglühen - Speed Dating für Senioren
2014-11-12
13 people between the end of 60 and the middle 80: They have already experienced many things in thei
Abenteuer eines Sommers
1973-01-01
L'olandese scomparso
1974-10-20
An oceanologist born in Venice returns to his hometown because he was summoned there by an elderly c
A Witch's Kiss
2005-03-23
The young witch Karla learns everything she needs to know about witchcraft from her teacher Miranda.
Letzter Moment
2010-09-17
Where I Belong
2014-10-15
Rosemarie is a hard-working young woman living in a small English town in the 1950's. She left Austr
Das Gewinnerlos
2015-05-01
Six numbers in the lottery! If that's not good luck for Georg Freudenreich and fellow winner and bro
The Misplaced World
2015-05-07
By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabia
Sein gutes Recht
2015-03-30
Imperative
1982-04-01
Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense o
Ich bin unschuldig - Ärztin im Zwielicht
1995-01-01
Babyraub - Kinder fremder Mächte
1998-01-01
In the Name of Innocence
1997-10-11
The mother of a murdered hitchhiker meets the offender.
Berlin Syndrome
2017-04-20
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist w
Picknick im Schnee
1999-01-13
Johannes Breutigam, a successful architect, is confronted with his real life on a New Year's Eve. Hi
Undine
1965-03-28
Sister
2010-09-08
All her life, 80-year-old Margot Brunner (Rosemarie Fendel) has lived with her disabled sister Wilma
Purity of Heart
1980-06-06
An abstract look at the changes in a woman's inner self. Married to a down-and-out writer, she is fo
Ein großer Aufbruch
2015-11-16
After getting his cancer diagnosis, Holm decides to die in Switzerland. With a last big appearance h
Noch ein Wunsch
1989-01-01
Martin's life is getting out of hand.
Lauras Entscheidung
1994-01-01
Matthiesens Töchter
2015-11-07
Old Matthiesen isn't really very friendly with his daughter Esther. She has fled to her parents' rid
Der Fall Ö.
1991-04-03
During the Greek summer in the war year of 1944, a German military unit sets up camp on the plateau
What Maisie Knew
1993-12-22
Paris during the 1920s. Ever since her parents' separation, ten-year-old Maisie has been travelling
Boran
2002-01-22
Boran has been on the run from the police for 20 years. Back then, he was sent to prison after an un
Boundaries
2010-02-16
Nine young actors leave behind their daily lives in Berlin and travel to the country to audition for
Nero
2004-05-23
As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his
Liebe am Fjord - Abschied von Hannah
2012-10-19
After the death of his wife, respected writer Henrik Agdestein won't let anyone get close to him, ne
The Vultures
1984-03-28
April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune i
Der Großvater
2009-07-27
Das Klavier
1972-12-25
Neugierig wie ein Kind
1974-01-01
Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone
2003-02-09
Prussian general's son Friedrich, Freiherr (German baron) von der Trenck, is an unruly student whose
Two Days of Hope
2003-05-14
Brothers Helmut and Wolfgang Kaminski live on opposite sides of the still porous Iron Curtain: Helmu
Das zehnte Jahr
1995-01-01
The story tells of a love which after ten years is beginning to grow old, and of the attempt to turn
Die Konvention Belzebir
1968-10-10
Zucker für die Bestie
1998-05-06
Davids Rache
1997-05-26
Der Prototyp
1975-12-09
Das Leben vor mir
2018-10-29
25 years ago, Cornelius left his then girlfriend Julia to live with Frank. After Julia fled to the U
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
1991-01-01
Contemporary criticism in a Turkish setting.
Fluchtgefahr
1974-08-01
The 23-year-old Bruno accidentally clashes with society, the judicial and the police. Once he has ex
Nanga Parbat
2010-01-14
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhol
Embers
1983-09-01
Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's hom
Narcissus and Goldmund
2020-03-12
In the dark middle ages, young unruly Goldmund is sent to a monastery by his father to atone for the
Lassie Come Home
2020-02-20
12-year-old Florian and his beloved dog Lassie live in an idyllic village in the German countryside.
Conni & Co 2 - Das Geheimnis des T-Rex
2017-04-20
Teenager Connie and her friends try to save an island full of nature and place of their encounters f
Pink Palace, Paradise Beach
1990-09-06
Are you happy? You don't have to answer right away. There is an island in the Mediterranean where th
Playing God
2020-11-23
The 78-year-old former architect Richard Gärtner (Matthias Habich) wants to put an end to his life.
Princess
2021-09-28
When his younger sister, a single parent, moves into the second apartment with her 5-year-old daught
Das Kindermädchen
2012-01-09