Matthias Habich is a German actor, who is perhaps best known for playing one of Hitler’s personal physicians, Werner Haase, in director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s World War II epic, Downfall (2004). He began his acting career in 1973 with Abenteuer eines Sommers. Over the years Habich as starred in movies like Maiden's War (1977), Purity of Heart (1980), Imperative (1982), Glut (1983), Pink Palace, Paradise Beach (1987), À corps perdu (1988), Der Fall Ö. (1991), Beyond Silence (1996), Boran (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Nowhere in Africa (2001), The Reader (2008), Boundaries (2010) and Die abhandene Welt (2015). He has also starred in TV shows like Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck (1973), Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplicissimus (1975), Jack Holborn (1982), Deutschlandlied (1996), Klemperer - Ein Leben in Deutschland (1999) and Bloch (2002). In the 2017 movie, Berlin Syndrome, Habich starred alongside Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt. The movie is directed by Cate Shortland.