Patrick Vollrath, born 1985 in Eisdorf am Harz, trained as a film and video editor at ARRI Film & TV in Munich from 2005 to 2008. He then worked as an editor before studying directing at the Vienna Film Academy, where Michael Haneke was one of his teachers. His student film "Sleeping Perv is World Famous for 5 Minutes" (DE/AT 2011) was voted short film of the month by the federal authority for evaluating and rating film and media FBW. From 2011 Vollrath also shot several commercials. He had a great success with his 30-minute graduation film "Alles wird gut" ("Everything Will Be Okay", 2014). The drama about a father who tries to abduct his little daughter won awards at several international festivals (among others in Cannes and Milan as well as at the Max-Ophüls-Festival in Saarbrücken). He also won the First Steps Award and the Austrian Film Prize. After Vollrath had received the Student Academy Award in bronze in September 2015, "Alles wird gut" was nominated for Best Short Film at the Oscars 2016.

Patrick Vollrath made his feature film debut with the English-language thriller "7500", shot in Germany, about a pilot (played by Hollywood star Joseph-Gordon Levitt) whose plane is hijacked by terrorists. The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland) in August 2019 and was shown in German cinemas the following December.