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...
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Princess
2021
as Josef (old)
When his younger sister, a single parent, moves into the second apartment with her 5-year-old daughter Nina, an unexpected friendship develops between...

Playing God
2020
as Richard Gärtner
The 78-year-old former architect Richard Gärtner (Matthias Habich) wants to put an end to his life. However, this should not be done abroad, but quite...

Narcissus and Goldmund
2020
as Burgherr
In the dark middle ages, young unruly Goldmund is sent to a monastery by his father to atone for the sins of his mother, who abandoned them. There, he...

Lassie - Eine abenteuerliche Reise
2020
as Graf von Sprengel
12-year-old Florian and his beloved dog Lassie live in an idyllic village in the German countryside. When Florian's father loses his job, the family h...

Das Leben vor mir
2018
as Cornelius
25 years ago, Cornelius left his then girlfriend Julia to live with Frank. After Julia fled to the USA at the time, she is now returning and wants to ...

Berlin Syndrome
2017
as Erich Werner
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in an abandoned Berlin apartment ...

Conni & Co 2 - Das Geheimnis des T-Rex
2017
as Ingo Jonas
Teenager Connie and her friends try to save an island full of nature and place of their encounters from being destroyed by the construction of a hotel...

Ein großer Aufbruch
2015
as Holm Hardenberg
After getting his cancer diagnosis, Holm decides to die in Switzerland. With a last big appearance he wants to say goodbye to his family. Holm invites...

Matthiesens Töchter
2015
as Matthiesen
Old Matthiesen isn't really very friendly with his daughter Esther. She has fled to her parents' riding stables with her 105-kilo bundle of joy son Da...

The Misplaced World
2015
as Paul Kromberger
By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead w...

Das Gewinnerlos
2015
as Georg Freudenreich
Six numbers in the lottery! If that's not good luck for Georg Freudenreich and fellow winner and brother-in-law Heinrich. This distracts from the feel...

Sein gutes Recht
2015
as Max Büttner

Altersglühen - Speed Dating für Senioren
2014
as Helge Löns
13 people between the end of 60 and the middle 80: They have already experienced many things in their lives. Everyone has their own hopes, desires, co...
Where I Belong
2014
as Friedrich
Rosemarie is a hard-working young woman living in a small English town in the 1950's. She left Austria with her father during the war to escape the Na...

Die Toten von Hameln
2014
as Dr. Georg Bischoff
Choir director Johanna Bischoff and her girls choir go to a concert in their hometown Hameln. Shortly before the scheduled performance disappear four ...

The Taste of Apple Seeds
2013
as Carsten Lexow
When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where she and her cousin used to play dressing-up in th...
Und alle haben geschwiegen
2013
as Paul
Between 1949 and 1975 more than 800 000 German orphans have lived their post-war years in Church Institutions. They have endured terrible abuses. Ever...

Abschied von Hannah
2012
as Henrik Agdestein
After the death of his wife, respected writer Henrik Agdestein won't let anyone get close to him, neither the kind-hearted teacher Sonja nor the feist...

Eine halbe Ewigkeit
2012
as Harry Berg
More than fifty years have passed since Harry left his great love Elly head over heels to go to America. Now he has returned to see her again - and mu...

Das Kindermädchen
2012
as Utz von Zernikow

Morgen musst du sterben
2010
as Peter
Johannes Ganten, in his late 50s, known as John to his friends, leads a comfortable life as an emeritus professor. Everything has always come to him, ...

Letzter Moment
2010
as Peter Romberg

Sister
2010
as Gregor Antonion
All her life, 80-year-old Margot Brunner (Rosemarie Fendel) has lived with her disabled sister Wilma (Cornelia Froboess) in the apartment of their dec...

Barriere
2010
as Hans Meinhold
Nine young actors leave behind their daily lives in Berlin and travel to the country to audition for a summer theatre production to be performed in th...

Nanga Parbat
2010
as Pfarrer
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.

Ceasefire
2009
as Alain
A 24 hours ceasefire. The situation in Falluja is devastating- no food, no medications, no help. A group of five people sets out with the plan to help...

Der Großvater
2009
as Großvater

Half a Life
2009
as Peter Grabowski
A young woman is found raped and bludgeoned to death. Her father can’t reconcile himself with her death, and even less with the fact that the murderer...

The Reader
2008
as Peter Berg
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only t...

Chaotic Ana
2007
as Klaus
Ana, a teenager artist, is raised in Ibiza by her German father Klaus in a naturalist lifestyle. She meets Justine, who invites her to move to Madrid ...

Silberhochzeit
2006
as Ben
Based on a short story by Elke Heidenreich, this TV movie focuses on a couple's silver wedding party and the revelation of some bitter, long hidden se...

Kein Himmel über Afrika
2005
as Richard
Gordon and Catherine are happy. He feels safe with her, she divorces him for him. The couple buy a farm in Tanzania, and soon Catherine is pregnant. T...

The Call of the Toad
2005
as Alexander Reschke
A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for exiles. But can their daring venture survive the cal...

A Witch's Kiss
2005
as Der Herr der Finsternis
The young witch Karla learns everything she needs to know about witchcraft from her teacher Miranda. When she tells her that her father has been curse...

Waves
2005
as Rolf von Buttlär
Adapted from Eduard von Keyserling’s 1911 novel of the same title, Waves depicts both the lives and loves of an aristocratic German family during a su...

Downfall
2004
as Prof. Dr. Werner Haase
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking fr...

Nero
2004
as Seneca
As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. While in exile in the pontine islands, Ag...
Getting a Life
2003
as Michael Berkhoff

Two Days of Hope
2003
as Otto Kaminski
Brothers Helmut and Wolfgang Kaminski live on opposite sides of the still porous Iron Curtain: Helmut works as a reporter for radio in the American se...

Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone
2003
as General von Habich
Prussian general's son Friedrich, Freiherr (German baron) von der Trenck, is an unruly student whose countless affairs make him enemies, but he wins e...

Boran
2002
as Boran
Boran has been on the run from the police for 20 years. Back then, he was sent to prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery, from where he escaped. He...

Nowhere in Africa
2001
as Süßkind
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel ref...

Enemy at the Gates
2001
as General Paulus
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Picknick im Schnee
1999
as Johannes Breutigam
Johannes Breutigam, a successful architect, is confronted with his real life on a New Year's Eve. His wife is cheating on him, his partner Losfeld has...
Zucker für die Bestie
1998
as Dr. Kaltenbach

Babyraub - Kinder fremder Mächte
1998
as Horst Glockner

The Judgement
1997
as Fremder
The Jewish antiques dealer Siegfried Rabinovicz is on his way from New York to Hamburg where he is about to testify as the principal witness in a murd...
Die Rättin
1997
as Markus Frank
A drama directed by Martin Buchhorn based on the novel by Günter Grass. At the center of the film is artist Marcus Frank, who is informed by a talking...

In the Name of Innocence
1997
as Kommissar Norbert Michaelis
The mother of a murdered hitchhiker meets the offender.
Davids Rache
1997
as Christian

Beyond Silence
1996
as Gregor
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the lo...

Black for Remembrance
1995
as Chris Corday
This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Seventeen years later the mur...
Deutschlandlied
1995
as Konrad Schuhbeck
This three-part film tells how people in the fictional town of Königsbruck experience the end of the war in 1945. For some it is salvation, for others...
Ich bin unschuldig - Ärztin im Zwielicht
1995
as Juergen Liebig

Das zehnte Jahr
1995
as Max
The story tells of a love which after ten years is beginning to grow old, and of the attempt to turn the imminent end into a new beginning. After ten ...
Lauras Entscheidung
1994
as Joachim Böllinger

What Maisie Knew
1993
as Bertrand
Paris during the 1920s. Ever since her parents' separation, ten-year-old Maisie has been travelling to and fro between her father Beale Farange and he...

The Last U-Boat
1993
as Mellenberg - General
Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news arrive...
À deux pas du paradis
1992

Der Fall Ö.
1991
as Hauptmann / Teiresias
During the Greek summer in the war year of 1944, a German military unit sets up camp on the plateau of Thebes. Armed with a 16 mm camera, the captain ...

O Janovi a podivuhodném příteli
1991
as Magnus
H. Ch. Andersen's story was the basis for the narrative film 'Of John and the Wonderful Friend', in which the 'magic wand' plays an important plot-for...

The Savage Woman
1991
as Elysée
Marianne, a young Canadian nurse living as an expatriate in Switzerland, is traumatized by a violent incident and becomes lost in the Alps. In time, a...

Die Entführung aus dem Serail
1991
Contemporary criticism in a Turkish setting.

Pink Palace, Paradise Beach
1990
as Daniel
Are you happy? You don't have to answer right away. There is an island in the Mediterranean where the question concerning happiness is taken very seri...

Duo
1990
as Ambrosius
A couple who appears to have the perfect relationship finds their future in jeopardy following a scorching night of lust and debauchery in this erotic...

Farendj
1990
as Bruno
A young man travels with his French girlfriend to Ethiopia. Whilst there he discovers a house in which the French poet Rimbaud once lived and he becom...
Noch ein Wunsch
1989
as Martin
Martin's life is getting out of hand.

Straight for the Heart
1988
as Pierre Kurwenal
Pierre is a Montreal photojournalist who returns from Nicaragua to find that his ten-year menage a trois is over. Haunted by his mid-life crisis, he b...

The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
1988
as Körner
An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentr...

The Cry of the Owl
1987
as Robert
Robert is magically attracted to Johanna. He observes and stalks her. Finally, the two get to know each other. But Johanna's relationship with Karl is...

The Vultures
1984
as Karl Brenner
April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awa...

Embers
1983
as Albert Korb
Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is havin...

Imperative
1982
as Theologist
Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story concern...

Purity of Heart
1980
An abstract look at the changes in a woman's inner self. Married to a down-and-out writer, she is forced into a liaison with a book thief.

Ursula
1978
as Zwingli
Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now fin...

Good-for-Nothing
1978
as Leonard
A young man seeks freedom and eventually gets conformed. To escape society, he wanders south. After some adventures he returns to his lover, where he ...

Maiden's War
1977
as Jan Amery
The three daughters of the Dessau merchant Sellmann move with their father to Prague in 1936, where he accepted a position as director of the Böhmisch...

Coup de Grâce
1976
as Erich von Lhomond
A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
Der Prototyp
1975
as Wolf D. Steiner

Im Vorhof der Wahrheit
1974
as Miroslav als Erwachsener
At nine, Miroslav flees the Eastern Front alone after his mother’s disappearance. In postwar Germany, the Czech boy drifts between zones, lands in ref...

L'olandese scomparso
1974
as Prof. Eric Vansee
An oceanologist born in Venice returns to his hometown because he was summoned there by an elderly colleague of international fame. When he arrives in...

Fluchtgefahr
1974
The 23-year-old Bruno accidentally clashes with society, the judicial and the police. Once he has exceeded the legal limits, he is stuck to the wrong ...
Neugierig wie ein Kind
1974

Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck
1973
as Friedrich von der Trenck
Abenteuer eines Sommers
1973
as Michelitsch
Das Klavier
1972
as Arthur Rödlich
Die Konvention Belzebir
1968
as Balembrun
Undine
1965