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Matthias Schweighöfer

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Matthias Schweighöfer (born March 11, 1981) is a German actor and filmmaker. He is best known for portraying Ludwig Dieter in Army of Thieves (2021) and Army of the Dead (2021).

11-03-1981

Birthday

Pisces

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

76

Total Films

ماتیاس شوایگهوفر

Also known as (male)

Anklam, Germany

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

76 Works

producer

15 Works

director

24 Works

writer

2 Works

other

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The Life of Wishes

The Life of Wishes

Felix is at an impasse in his family life and his job. His wife Bianca wants a separation, his children are moving away from him and his hair is falling out. When he also loses his job, Felix finds himself on the edge of the abyss. That's when a mysterious stranger offers him three wishes.
0.0

Year:

2025

Amrum

Amrum

Island Amrum, early 1945: Hunting seals, fishing at night, nothing is too dangerous for 10-year old Nanning. He helps his mother to feed their family during the last days of war. After the war ends, new conflicts and challanges arise and Nanning has to find his own path in life.
0.0

Year:

2025

Girl You Know It's True

Girl You Know It's True

Dancers Pilatus and Morvan rise to fame in the late 80's who become stars with No.1 hits and won a Grammy. The duo never sang a word in their songs and when the truth was revealed they starred one of the biggest scandals in music history.
7.1

Year:

2023

Family Switch

Family Switch

When the Walker family members switch bodies with each other during a rare planetary alignment, their hilarious journey to find their way back to normal will bring them closer together than they ever thought possible.
6.4

Year:

2023

Heart of Stone

Heart of Stone

An intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable — and dangerous — weapon.
6.8

Year:

2023

Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
8.1

Year:

2023

The Swimmers

The Swimmers

From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use.
7.4

Year:

2022

Army of Thieves

Army of Thieves

A mysterious woman recruits bank teller Ludwig Dieter to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top-secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse.
6.8

Year:

2021

Hinterland

Hinterland

Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes home to is nothing like the place he once knew. The new Austrian Republic thrives on social and artistic freedom, but anti-democratic movements and unemployment loom overhead. A stranger in his hometown, his life takes a turn for the worse when one of his former comrades is murdered. Suddenly the mysterious killings of veterans are mounting. Personally connected to the victims, Perg decides to bring the killer to justice. He finds an ally in the cool-headed forensic doctor Theresa Körner, with whom he has a deeper, shared history. Their investigation leads them into the darkest corners of the city, as they confront a brutal and systematic killer and intrigues from within the police force. But when the killer’s net closes around Perg himself, he faces the moral dilemma of his life.
6.3

Year:

2021

Creating an Army of the Dead

Creating an Army of the Dead

Zack Snyder and his Army of the Dead team dive into the film's wild stunts, groundbreaking effects and the evolution of the zombie genre.
6.0

Year:

2021

Army of the Dead

Army of the Dead

Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate gamble: venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted.
6.2

Year:

2021

Resistance

Resistance

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
7.0

Year:

2020

100 Things

100 Things

Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, whereby they receive one of their items back on each day. During this challenge the two realize, that the only thing they cannot be without is their friendship. A story about contemporary materialism and the quest for the truly important things in life.
6.6

Year:

2018

Kursk

Kursk

Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.
6.6

Year:

2018

Vielmachglas

Vielmachglas

Marleen is in her early 20s, works in a movie theater, still lives at home and is somehow aimless. Her parents torment her with questions about her future and her brother is a high-flyer who has already traveled halfway around the world. When a tragic accident plunges her into sheer endless grief, Marleen just wants to get away. Equipped with the bare essentials, she sets off on a journey into the unknown.
5.8

Year:

2018

Hot Dog

Hot Dog

A pair of Tactical Units Police Officers from different walks of life come together to rescue an ambassador's daughter.
5.5

Year:

2018

Bullyparade: The Movie

Bullyparade: The Movie

A multi-episode movie based on the skit TV show "bullyparade".
5.2

Year:

2017

Four Against the Bank

Four Against the Bank

After losing their respective nest eggs thanks to a bumbling bank employee, three men use him to plot a bold and batty heist to get their money back.
6.0

Year:

2016

The Most Beautiful Day

The Most Beautiful Day

The overambitious pianist Andi and the more laid back Benno have one thing in common: They will both die soon. So the two of them decide to have the most awesome day before its too late.
7.0

Year:

2016

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

On a tiny exotic island, Tuesday, an outgoing parrot lives with his quirky animal friends in paradise. However, Tuesday can't stop dreaming about discovering the world. After a violent storm, Tuesday and his friends wake up to find a strange creature on the beach: Robinson Crusoe. Tuesday immediately views Crusoe as his ticket off the island to explore new lands. Likewise, Crusoe soon realizes that the key to surviving on the island is through the help of Tuesday and the other animals. It isn't always easy at first, as the animals don't speak "human." Slowly but surely, they all start living together in harmony, until one day, when their comfortable life is overturned by two savage cats, who wish to take control of the island. A battle ensues between the cats and the group of friends but Crusoe and the animals soon discover the true power of friendship up against all odds (even savage cats).
5.8

Year:

2016

The Manny

The Manny

Young industrialist Clemens Klina doesn't have time for his children and accidentally hires a man who actually came to him, seeking revenge, as a nanny for them.
6.3

Year:

2015

Bibi & Tina: Bewildered and Bewitched

Bibi & Tina: Bewildered and Bewitched

When robbers hit Falkenstein castle, teen witch Bibi and pal Tina hunt for the crooks, then devise a plan to save the neighbors' failing ranch.
6.2

Year:

2014

Male Mistakes

Male Mistakes

Daniel and Thomas are two friends who are trying to catch girls in various therapy groups.
6.1

Year:

2014

Joy of Fatherhood

Joy of Fatherhood

A sperm donor becomes impotent - and so he searches for the woman, who got his sperm, to become a father after all...
6.1

Year:

2014

Frau Ella

Frau Ella

A young man goes on a road trip with an old lady he saves from a hospital.
6.4

Year:

2013

Kokowääh 2

Kokowääh 2

Who said a patchwork family is without problems? Two years after the turbulence of Kokowääh, everyday life turns to everyday chaos…
6.0

Year:

2013

Break Up Man

Break Up Man

BREAK UP MAN is an odd couple road movie and tells the story of Henri, who works for a break up agency in Berlin and on behalf of those who want to separate themselves from their future “ex”-partners. To complete his most important mission he is confronted with an unwanted partner, Toto, who spoils more or less everything and makes Henri’s life a nightmare.
5.9

Year:

2013

Russendisko

Russendisko

Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their chance looking for a better life and find themselves involved in the tales of everyday lunacy on the streets of Berlin and its spirit of the early nineties.
5.5

Year:

2012

Woman in Love

Woman in Love

An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.
5.9

Year:

2011

Hut in the Woods

Hut in the Woods

Two misfit males, one man-child, one boy, find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for survival creates a strong bond between them until the hut is destroyed and one of the boys carted off. The former psychiatric patient is told that his friend was just a figment of his imagination, but this provokes him to fight back and prove the boy's existence.
6.9

Year:

2011

What a Man

What a Man

What a man is a comedy that tells the story of a young professor, Alex (Matthias Schweighofer), which after being left by his girlfriend Caroline (Mavie Hörbiger), begins a journey to know himself. But how do you overcome the difficulties of a man today? Or rather what is it that makes a man a man?
5.3

Year:

2011

3nity

3nity

Hage, the Holy Spirit, is writing a musical, when Jesus returns to earth at Christmas to prepare the apocalypse. To prevent this, Hage tries to convince him that mankind is worth saving with the help of a beautiful striptease dancer.
5.7

Year:

2010

Friendship!

Friendship!

A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago. Together with his best friend, he starts the journey from New York with no money and the only word they ever learned in english-lessons: "friendship".
6.3

Year:

2010

12 Paces without a Head

12 Paces without a Head

The era of the feared sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels is coming to an end. After a long period with no booty at last a bulging ship appears on the horizon. However, Störtebeker is badly wounded in the attempted capture and the pirates suffer ignominious defeat. Not only their ship is down the drain - Störtebeker himself is suddenly plagued by anxiety and doubt about his very existence as a pirate. He is drawn to the beautiful country girl Bille, while Michels gets rebuffed by the friesian princess Okka. In the very moment that the crew have mutinied and co-captain Michels is literally at the end of his tether, they discover on board their ramshackle old tub a most unique wonder weapon. Glory days are quickly revived - until the mighty Hanse consolidate their power and weaponry and go to war against the pirates. Störtebeker and Michels are forced to decide: To live as a farmer or to die as a pirate.
6.2

Year:

2009

Rabbit Without Ears 2

Rabbit Without Ears 2

Two years have passed. There is a normal life, but handsome Ludo meets his old love, and Anna is very jealous...
5.8

Year:

2009

Must Love Death

Must Love Death

Disappointed by love, suicidal Norman arranges to meet some like-minded people. But when he arrives at the meeting the alleged suicides turn out to be unscrupulous killers looking for a willing victim. A comical and macabre fight against death begins.
4.3

Year:

2009

Night Train

Night Train

Two Passengers and the conductor discover that a person has passed away on their Night Train cabin. They come across valuable diamonds on his person, that they decide to keep for themselves...
5.5

Year:

2009

Marcel Reich-Ranicki - Mein Leben

Marcel Reich-Ranicki - Mein Leben

The film tells the early life story of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who was born in Wloclawek, Poland in 1920. During the Third Reich, the family was in great danger. Nevertheless, he returned to Germany with his wife.
6.0

Year:

2009

Valkyrie

Valkyrie

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
6.9

Year:

2008

The Architect

The Architect

Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the rightness of his original idea. Soon Georg himself is forced to take stock of the achievements and mistakes he has made in his personal life. An intense drama in which the four members of the family travel to a mountain village to bury Georg's mother. They get stranded in bad weather. This unexpected isolation throws new light on the past and present life of the parents and the two almost-adult children.
5.5

Year:

2008

The Red Baron

The Red Baron

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war.
6.6

Year:

2008

Rabbit Without Ears

Rabbit Without Ears

Rainbow press reporter Ludo is sentenced to 8 months, but is released on probation. But he has to work 300 hours for a local daycare center and meets Anna who has unfinished business with him.
6.1

Year:

2007

An Old Maid

An Old Maid

6.8

Year:

2007

Fata Morgana

Fata Morgana

6.3

Year:

2007

Eight Miles High

Eight Miles High

Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn't political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model and leads international music stars in temptation.
6.4

Year:

2007

Polly Blue Eyes

Polly Blue Eyes

5.9

Year:

2005

Bike Me Up

Bike Me Up

Six filmmakers take part in this anthology film which cross six European cities, celebrating the locations’ relationships with cycling.
0.0

Year:

-

Der blaue Affe

Der blaue Affe

A short movie about people trying to forget about their everyday life in the Weimarer Republik. But it was not an ordinary day, it was the dark friday - the last night of the golden 1920s.
4.5

Year:

2006

Lulu

Lulu

5.0

Year:

2006

The Young Schiller

The Young Schiller

4.7

Year:

2005

Happy End

Happy End

0.0

Year:

2005

Combat 16

Combat 16

16 year-old Georg is forced to leave his home in the West, which means saying goodbye to his two loves; his girlfriend, and his Taekwondo team, something that is all-important to him. Now living in Cottbus, an economically depressed place where the people are not too fond of things like American culture and foreigners living in their country, Georg soon falls in with a group of angry mates. Together the group delves further into a nationalist way of thinking, and soon they are shaving their heads, and becoming a skinhead gang. "Kombat Sechzehn" features some impressive, proffessional looking fight sequences, as well as a memorable soundtrack.
6.0

Year:

2005

Off Beat

Off Beat

Traumatised paramedic looks for the woman of his dreams.
6.2

Year:

2004

Baal

Baal

Baal, a young artist whom society regards as a genius, does not want to be monopolized by the culture and business.
5.6

Year:

2004

Cold Spring

Cold Spring

A rebellious young woman is thrown out by her wealthy, but marbly parents and gets into a nightmare of poverty, prostitution and sickness.
4.7

Year:

2004

Die Klasse von '99 - Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt

Die Klasse von '99 - Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt

The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town
6.5

Year:

2003

Hamlet_X

Hamlet_X

A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story.
5.0

Year:

2003

Soloalbum

Soloalbum

Ben is a young editor for a famous german music magazine in the mid 90's. His life is falling apart after his girlfriend breaks up with him. From now on he decides to go solo...
5.5

Year:

2003

FearDotCom

FearDotCom

When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash young detective Mike Reilly teams with ambitious Department of Health researcher Terry Huston to uncover the cause behind their violent and inexplicable deaths. The only common factor shared by the victims? Each died exactly 48 hours after logging onto a website called feardotcom.
3.7

Year:

2002

Friends of Friends

Friends of Friends

Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001.
5.8

Year:

2002

Nachts im Park

Nachts im Park

6.5

Year:

2002

Ballett ist ausgefallen

Ballett ist ausgefallen

The 10-year-old Elisa skips her dull ballet lessons to visit ice-cream parlor Dolomiti where teenage Holger, the object of her infatuation, works. Here her can imagination go free and she can philosophize about life in a childlike way.
0.0

Year:

2002

Heart Over Head

Heart Over Head

Jakob, an 18-year-old boy, comes back to Frankfurt after he left after his mothers death one year ago. While trying to sort his life he meets a Polish Au-Pair, Wanda, and falls in love with her. But there are several disappointments on both sides...
6.8

Year:

2001

Mein Vater die Tunte

Mein Vater die Tunte

A homosexual couple in Berlin, one of whom has a fervent desire to adopt, discovers that the other already has a son. They are able to track him down near Lübeck, but meeting his biological father, the owner of a travesty club, is initially a disappointment for the young man, a sportsman with professional dreams. Only slowly and with great difficulty do the two of them come closer together and consider a solution to all their problems.
9.0

Year:

2001

Babykram ist Männersache

Babykram ist Männersache

Arne and his younger brother Malte run the scrapyard they inherited from their parents on the outskirts of Hamburg and live a rather disoriented existence. One day, Malte finds an abandoned baby. He immediately takes the little one to his heart and wants to look after the child until he finds the birth mother. His brother Arne doesn't like the idea at all, but Malte wants to go through with the plan and even threatens to sell his brother the scrapyard. Disgruntled, Arne finally agrees and, as Malte is fully occupied with caring for the baby, sets off on a laborious search for the raven mother.
4.3

Year:

2001

Kiss Me, Frog

Kiss Me, Frog

Modern version of The Frog King. Out of an impulse, 15-year-old Anna kisses a frog which then turns into a prince. But the curse is not solved that easily.
4.7

Year:

2000

Verbotenes Verlangen - Ich liebe meinen Schüler

Verbotenes Verlangen - Ich liebe meinen Schüler

(Television) melodrama about an established, happily married teacher who falls in love with one of her pupils and becomes pregnant by him.
6.0

Year:

2000

Friends

Friends

5.3

Year:

2000

3 Tage 44

3 Tage 44

Because the war is not for him, the young soldier Albert deserts. He wants to wait out the end of World War II on his parents' farm in East Prussia. His father's excessive sense of duty leads to disaster.
0.0

Year:

2000

Spuk aus der Gruft

Spuk aus der Gruft

7.5

Year:

1998

Brick

Brick

A couple whose apartment building is suddenly surrounded by a mysterious brick wall and who must work with their neighbors to find a way out.
0.0

Year:

-

Changing Skins

Changing Skins

Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils kidnap a teacher in East Germany.
6.1

Year:

1997