Matthias Habich

Matthias Habich

1940-01-12 Gdańsk, Poland 88 Credits

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

Princess

2021

as Josef (old)

6.0
Acting

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

Playing God

2020

as Richard Gärtner

8.3
Acting

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

Narcissus and Goldmund

2020

as Burgherr

6.4
Acting

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

Lassie - Eine abenteuerliche Reise

2020

as Graf von Sprengel

6.4
Acting

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

Das Leben vor mir

2018

as Cornelius

1.0
Acting

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

Berlin Syndrome

2017

as Erich Werner

6.0
Acting

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

Conni & Co 2 - Das Geheimnis des T-Rex

2017

as Ingo Jonas

7.0
Acting

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

Ein großer Aufbruch

2015

as Holm Hardenberg

7.5
Acting

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

Matthiesens Töchter

2015

as Matthiesen

4.0
Acting

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

The Misplaced World

2015

as Paul Kromberger

5.4
Acting

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

Das Gewinnerlos

2015

as Georg Freudenreich

6.5
Acting

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

Sein gutes Recht

2015

as Max Büttner

5.0
Acting
Altersglühen - Speed Dating für Senioren

Altersglühen - Speed Dating für Senioren

2014

as Helge Löns

4.4
Acting

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

Acting

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

Die Toten von Hameln

2014

as Dr. Georg Bischoff

5.6
Acting

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

The Taste of Apple Seeds

2013

as Carsten Lexow

6.3
Acting

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

7.7
Acting

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

Abschied von Hannah

2012

as Henrik Agdestein

4.5
Acting

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

Eine halbe Ewigkeit

2012

as Harry Berg

4.8
Acting

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

Das Kindermädchen

2012

as Utz von Zernikow

Acting
Morgen musst du sterben

Morgen musst du sterben

2010

as Peter

6.0
Acting

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

Letzter Moment

2010

as Peter Romberg

3.5
Acting
Sister

Sister

2010

as Gregor Antonion

Acting

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

Barriere

2010

as Hans Meinhold

Acting

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

Nanga Parbat

2010

as Pfarrer

6.6
Acting

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

Ceasefire

Ceasefire

2009

as Alain

6.8
Acting

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

Der Großvater

2009

as Großvater

Acting
Half a Life

Half a Life

2009

as Peter Grabowski

6.9
Acting

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

The Reader

2008

as Peter Berg

7.5
Acting

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

Chaotic Ana

2007

as Klaus

6.0
Acting

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

Silberhochzeit

2006

as Ben

9.0
Acting

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

Kein Himmel über Afrika

2005

as Richard

4.0
Acting

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

The Call of the Toad

2005

as Alexander Reschke

5.2
Acting

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

A Witch's Kiss

2005

as Der Herr der Finsternis

6.0
Acting

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

Waves

2005

as Rolf von Buttlär

2.0
Acting

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

Downfall

2004

as Prof. Dr. Werner Haase

7.9
Acting

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

Nero

2004

as Seneca

6.0
Acting

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

7.0
Acting
Two Days of Hope

Two Days of Hope

2003

as Otto Kaminski

7.0
Acting

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

Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone

2003

as General von Habich

4.5
Acting

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

Boran

2002

as Boran

Acting

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

Nowhere in Africa

2001

as Süßkind

7.1
Acting

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

Enemy at the Gates

2001

as General Paulus

7.4
Acting

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Picknick im Schnee

Picknick im Schnee

1999

as Johannes Breutigam

5.0
Acting

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

Acting
Babyraub - Kinder fremder Mächte

Babyraub - Kinder fremder Mächte

1998

as Horst Glockner

5.0
Acting
The Judgement

The Judgement

1997

as Fremder

6.0
Acting

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

5.0
Acting

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

In the Name of Innocence

1997

as Kommissar Norbert Michaelis

6.0
Acting

The mother of a murdered hitchhiker meets the offender.

Davids Rache

1997

as Christian

Acting
Beyond Silence

Beyond Silence

1996

as Gregor

6.9
Acting

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

Black for Remembrance

1995

as Chris Corday

5.9
Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting
Das zehnte Jahr

Das zehnte Jahr

1995

as Max

Acting

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

2.0
Acting
What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew

1993

as Bertrand

5.5
Acting

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

The Last U-Boat

1993

as Mellenberg - General

5.4
Acting

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

Acting
Der Fall Ö.

Der Fall Ö.

1991

as Hauptmann / Teiresias

7.3
Acting

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

O Janovi a podivuhodném příteli

1991

as Magnus

4.5
Acting

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

The Savage Woman

1991

as Elysée

5.5
Acting

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

Die Entführung aus dem Serail

1991

Acting

Contemporary criticism in a Turkish setting.

Pink Palace, Paradise Beach

Pink Palace, Paradise Beach

1990

as Daniel

Acting

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

Duo

1990

as Ambrosius

Acting

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

Farendj

1990

as Bruno

3.5
Acting

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

Acting

Martin's life is getting out of hand.

Straight for the Heart

Straight for the Heart

1988

as Pierre Kurwenal

4.4
Acting

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

The Passenger – Welcome to Germany

1988

as Körner

5.7
Acting

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

The Cry of the Owl

1987

as Robert

Acting

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

The Vultures

1984

as Karl Brenner

6.0
Acting

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

Embers

1983

as Albert Korb

6.3
Acting

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

Imperative

1982

as Theologist

5.5
Acting

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

Purity of Heart

1980

Acting

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

Ursula

1978

as Zwingli

5.4
Acting

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

Good-for-Nothing

1978

as Leonard

2.0
Acting

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

Maiden's War

1977

as Jan Amery

Acting

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

Coup de Grâce

1976

as Erich von Lhomond

6.4
Acting

A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.

Der Prototyp

1975

as Wolf D. Steiner

Acting
Im Vorhof der Wahrheit

Im Vorhof der Wahrheit

1974

as Miroslav als Erwachsener

Acting

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

L'olandese scomparso

1974

as Prof. Eric Vansee

Acting

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

Fluchtgefahr

1974

Acting

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

Acting
Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck

Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck

1973

as Friedrich von der Trenck

8.0
Acting

Abenteuer eines Sommers

1973

as Michelitsch

Acting

Das Klavier

1972

as Arthur Rödlich

8.0
Acting

Die Konvention Belzebir

1968

as Balembrun

Acting

Undine

1965

Acting