A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true events.
Acting
Waschke's face holds entire conversations about guilt.
Direction
Herz's final film—elegiac control from a Holocaust survivor.
Production
Period village built with oppressive authenticity.
Director
Juraj Herz
Mark Waschke
August Habermann
Karel Roden
Jan Březina
Ben Becker
Koslowski
Hannah Herzsprung
Jana Habermannová
Radek Holub
Mašek
Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht
Hans Habermann
Zuzana Kronerová
Eliška Mašková
Jan Hrušínský
Václav Pospíchal
Franziska Weisz
Marta Březinová
Andrej Hryc
Bürgermeister Jan Hartl
Oldřich Kaiser
Brichta
Martin Stránský
Martin Sitta
Jaromír Dulava
Buchhalter Hora
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film sparked controversy in Czech-German relations for depicting Sudeten Germans as victims alongside perpetrators.
Herz himself survived Theresienstadt and Auschwitz; this was his meditation on bystanders in his own region's bloodlands.
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