
Matthias Habich
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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.446 |
Birthday | 1940-01-12 |
Place of Birth | Gdańsk, Poland |
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1996

Beyond Silence
6.9/70
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...
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Beyond Silence

2001

Enemy at the Gates
7.4/3664
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
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Enemy at the Gates

2004

Downfall
7.9/3904
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...
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Downfall

2001

Nowhere in Africa
7.057/166
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...
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Nowhere in Africa

2007

Chaotic Ana
6/56
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...
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Chaotic Ana

2006

Silberhochzeit
9/1
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...
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Silberhochzeit

1976

Coup de Grâce
6.4/24
A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
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Coup de Grâce

2005

The Call of the Toad
5.2/9
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...
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The Call of the Toad

2009

Half a Life
6.9/11
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...
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Half a Life

1995

Black for Remembrance
5.719/16
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...
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Black for Remembrance

1997

The Judgement
6/4
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...
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The Judgement

1988

Straight for the Heart
4.4/5
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...
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Straight for the Heart

2005

Kein Himmel über Afrika
4/2
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Kein Himmel über Afrika

1990

Duo
0/0
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...
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Duo

1990

Farendj
3.5/2
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...
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Farendj

1992

Princesse Alexandra
0/0
In search of freedom, Duchess Alexandra, cousin of Empress Sissi, leaves Austria and her violent husband to settle incognito in Paris.
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Princesse Alexandra

1992

À deux pas du paradis
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À deux pas du paradis

1997

Die Rättin
5/1
A drama directed by Martin Buchhorn based on the novel by Günter Grass.
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Die Rättin

2013

Und alle haben geschwiegen
7.7/5
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...
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Und alle haben geschwiegen

1991

The Savage Woman
5.5/2
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...
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The Savage Woman

1988

The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
5.7/3
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...
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The Passenger – Welcome to Germany

2013

The Taste of Apple Seeds
6.3/16
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...
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The Taste of Apple Seeds

1991

O Janovi a podivuhodném příteli
3/1
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O Janovi a podivuhodném příteli

2010

Morgen musst du sterben
6/1
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Morgen musst du sterben

1993

The Last U-Boat
5.4/9
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...
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The Last U-Boat

1974

Im Vorhof der Wahrheit
0/0
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Im Vorhof der Wahrheit

2012

Eine halbe Ewigkeit
4.75/2
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...
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Eine halbe Ewigkeit

2014

Die Toten von Hameln
5.6/6
Choir director Johanna Bischoff and her girls choir go to a concert in their hometown Hameln. Shortly before the scheduled performance disappear four...
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Die Toten von Hameln

2008

The Reader
7.5/3143
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...
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The Reader

2009

Ceasefire
6.8/2
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...
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Ceasefire

1978

Ursula
5.4/5
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...
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Ursula

1973

Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck
8/2
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Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck

1977

Der Mädchenkrieg
0/0
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...
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Der Mädchenkrieg

2003

Getting a Life
7/1
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Getting a Life

1987

The Cry of the Owl
0/0
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...
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The Cry of the Owl

2005

Waves
2/1
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...
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Waves

1978

Good-for-Nothing
2/1
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...
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Good-for-Nothing

1995

Deutschlandlied
0/0
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Deutschlandlied

2014

Altersglühen - Speed Dating für Senioren
4.7/3
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...
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Altersglühen - Speed Dating für Senioren

1973

Abenteuer eines Sommers
0/0
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Abenteuer eines Sommers

1974

L'olandese scomparso
0/0
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...
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L'olandese scomparso

2005

A Witch's Kiss
6/1
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A Witch's Kiss

2010

Letzter Moment
3.5/2
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Letzter Moment

2014

Where I Belong
0/0
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...
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Where I Belong

2015

Das Gewinnerlos
6.5/2
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...
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Das Gewinnerlos

2015

The Misplaced World
5.5/7
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...
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The Misplaced World

2015

Sein gutes Recht
5/1
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Sein gutes Recht

1982

Imperative
5.5/4
Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story concern...
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Imperative

2007

Schuld und Unschuld
1/1
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Schuld und Unschuld

1995

Ich bin unschuldig - Ärztin im Zwielicht
0/0
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Ich bin unschuldig - Ärztin im Zwielicht

1998

Babyraub - Kinder fremder Mächte
0/0
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Babyraub - Kinder fremder Mächte

1997

In the Name of Innocence
6/2
The mother of a murdered hitchhiker meets the offender.
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In the Name of Innocence

2017

Berlin Syndrome
6/638
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unab...
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Berlin Syndrome

1999

Picknick im Schnee
5/3
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...
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Picknick im Schnee

1965

Undine
0/0
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Undine

2010

Sister
0/0
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...
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Sister

1980

Purity of Heart
0/0
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.
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Purity of Heart

2015

Ein großer Aufbruch
7.5/2
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...
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Ein großer Aufbruch

1989

Noch ein Wunsch
0/0
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Noch ein Wunsch

1994

Lauras Entscheidung
2/1
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Lauras Entscheidung

2015

Matthiesens Töchter
4/3
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Matthiesens Töchter

1991

Der Fall Ö.
7.3/3
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...
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Der Fall Ö.

1995

What Maisie Knew
5.5/2
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...
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What Maisie Knew

2002

Boran
0/0
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Boran

2010

Barriere
0/0
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...
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Barriere

2004

Nero
6/8
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...
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Nero

2012

Abschied von Hannah
4.5/2
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...
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Abschied von Hannah

1984

The Vultures
6/139
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...
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The Vultures

2009

Der Großvater
0/0
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Der Großvater

1972

Das Klavier
8/1
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Das Klavier

1974

Neugierig wie ein Kind
0/0
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Neugierig wie ein Kind

2003

Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone
4.5/6
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...
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Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone

2003

Two Days of Hope
7/1
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Two Days of Hope

1995

Das zehnte Jahr
0/0
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...
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Das zehnte Jahr

1968

Die Konvention Belzebir
0/0
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Die Konvention Belzebir

1998

Zucker für die Bestie
0/0
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Zucker für die Bestie

1997

Davids Rache
0/0
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Davids Rache

1975

Der Prototyp
0/0
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Der Prototyp

2018

Das Leben vor mir
1/1
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...
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Das Leben vor mir

1991

Die Entführung aus dem Serail
0/0
Contemporary criticism in a Turkish setting.
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Die Entführung aus dem Serail

1974

Fluchtgefahr
0/0
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...
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Fluchtgefahr

2010

Nanga Parbat
6.652/56
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
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Nanga Parbat

1983

Embers
6.3/3
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...
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Embers

2020

Narcissus and Goldmund
6.2/60
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. It is ther...
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Narcissus and Goldmund

2020

Lassie - Eine abenteuerliche Reise
6.5/97
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...
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Lassie - Eine abenteuerliche Reise

2017

Conni & Co 2 - Das Geheimnis des T-Rex
7/9
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...
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Conni & Co 2 - Das Geheimnis des T-Rex

1990

Pink Palace, Paradise Beach
0/0
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...
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Pink Palace, Paradise Beach

2020

Playing God
8.3/10
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...
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Playing God

2021

Princess
6/2
When his younger sister, a single parent, moves into the second apartment with her 5-year-old daughter Nina, an unexpected friendship develops between...
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