Biography
Volker Bruch (born 9 March 1980) is a German television and film actor. He is best known internationally for his leading roles as Wilhelm Winter in the television drama Generation War (2013) and as Inspector Gereon Rath in the TV series Babylon Berlin (2017–present).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia
2024
as Walter Röhrl
Inspired by true events that occurred during the fierce rivalry between Germany (Audi) and Italy (Lancia) at the 1983 Rally World Championships.

The Path
2022
as Ludwig
Fleeing from the Nazis, two children, a journalist father, and a dog must make their way through the hazardous Pyrenees mountain range.

Rocca Changes the World
2019
as Henning
11-year-old Rocca, a clever, creative and brave girl who lives all by herself in defiance of her teachers and the authorities has to fight to keep her...

The Girl in the Spider's Web
2018
as Peter Ahlgren
After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web ...

The Man with the Iron Heart
2017
as Schellenberg
With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young ...

Part of Us
2016
as Micki
From her childhood, Nadia felt responsible for her mentally disturbed and recently homeless mother, Irene. For a while Nadia had cut off all contact w...

Suck Me Shakespeer 2
2015
as Hauke Wölki
A rowdy teacher accompanies a class trip to Thailand to recover some diamonds accidentally sent there and restore the school's reputation.

Outside the Box
2015
as Frederick Schopner
Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building event. He and his colleagues wil...

Das goldene Ufer
2015
as Walther
Vormärz in Germany: Gisela and Walther, a maid and a servant - a predestined path of life, which Gisela rebels against. Her free-thinking spirit puts ...

Tour de Force
2014
as Finn
Belgium, of all places. What's Belgium got besides chocolates and fries? No matter, this year it was Hannes' and Kiki's turn to choose the destination...

Beste Chance
2014
as Toni
Since they graduated from school five years ago, the friends Jo and Kati have not seen one another. While one of them travels around the world and has...

Radical Evil
2014
as Voice
Das radikal Böse is a German-Austrian documentary that attempted to explore psychological processes and individual decision latitude "normal young men...

Die Pilgerin
2014
as Otfried Willinger
In the 14th century, a young merchant's daughter from southern Germany sets off on the adventurous Way of St. James to faraway Santiago de Compostela ...

Confession of a Child of the Century
2012
as Henri Smith
Paris, 1830: Octave, betrayed by his mistress, sinks into despair and debauchery. His father's death leads him to the country where he meets Brigitte,...

Treasure Guards
2011
as Luca
On a dig in the remote Jordanian desert, maverick archaeologist Victoria Carter (Anna Friel) discovers an ancient scroll buried in the ruins of an old...

Westwind
2011
as Nico
Set in the Summer of 1988 and based on real events, the film tells the story of East-German twins Isabel and Doreen, two aspiring oarswomen, whose liv...

Young Goethe in Love
2010
as Wilhelm Jerusalem
After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a y...

Nanga Parbat
2010
as Gerhard Baur
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.

The Murder Farm
2009
as Johann Hauer
Bavaria, Germany, 1950s. The sudden return of the young Kathrin to the small village where she was born stirs up the feelings of guilt and personal gh...

Little Paris
2008
as Stefan
"Little Paris" is the nickname given to Luna's hometown in provincial Baden Württemberg. Its name comes from a replica of the Eiffel Tower on a factor...

The Reader
2008
as Dieter Spenz
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...

Machen wir's auf Finnisch
2008
as Matti
Intern Annika gets the chance for a permanent position at the record company "GrandMusic". As a rehearsal, she is supposed to prepare the Finnish boy ...

Einer bleibt sitzen
2008
as Michel
Michel is paralyzed after a motorcycle accident and has lost sight of the meaning of his life.

The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008
as Stefan Aust
'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the ...

The Best Place to Be
2008
as Toni
After they have graduated from school, the two best friends Kati and Jo jump into their purple Benz and embark on a journey around the world southward...

The Red Baron
2008
as Lothar von Richthofen
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 spo...

Female Agents
2008
as Lieutenant Becker
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the c...

Beste Zeit
2007
as Toni
Kati drives the VW bus of her parents even without a license quite fast. But what else should one do in the Bavarian province? Kati and her best frien...
Nichts ist vergessen
2007
as Olaf Stahmann
It has been ten years since twelve-year-old Paula Wagner was the victim of a terrible crime - raped and murdered by her tennis teacher. Eleven years i...

Life Actually
2007
as Charles Spatz
Inner chaos breaks free in two families.

Rose
2005
as Axi

Baal
2004
as Johannes
Baal, a young artist whom society regards as a genius, does not want to be monopolized by the culture and business.
Getting a Life
2003