Music by Academy Award®-winning composer Volker Bertelmann
PRESSURE is in theaters nationwide today
LOS ANGELES, CA – May 29th 2026 – Back Lot Music announces the release of Focus Features’ PRESSURE Original Motion Picture Soundtrack with music by Academy Award®-winning composer Volker Bertelmann. The album is available everywhere digital music is sold and streamed. Additionally, the album is available to preorder on vinyl from Made By Mutant.
“The collaboration with Anthony Maras on PRESSURE was a wonderful process of exploration,” Volker notes. “In this second collaboration with him, I was trying to capture the scientific approach of a meteorologist and also the boldness of him staying true to science and his experience. The amazing cast made it easy to find the right spots where music can become its own character in the film. I am so glad to be a part of PRESSURE!”
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, PRESSURE follows General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg as they face an impossible choice—launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether. The film hits theaters nationwide today in the United States – get your tickets at pressurethefilm.com!
ABOUT VOLKER BERTELMANN
Volker Bertelmann is an internationally acclaimed pianist, composer, and experimental musician whose innovative approach to sound has made him one of contemporary cinema’s most distinctive musical voices. In 2023, he won both the Academy Award® and BAFTA Award for Best Original Score for All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Edward Berger, and was additionally honored with the Deutscher Filmpreis Award. He received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2025 for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music for HBO’s Dune: Prophecy, further highlighting his expanding impact across film and television. Bertelmann has also earned World Soundtrack Award recognition for his scores to Conclave, The Amateur, and All Quiet on the Western Front.
His notable credits include Lion, co-composed with Dustin O’Halloran, the Academy Award®–nominated Conclave, The Day of the Jackal, Patrick Melrose, Your Honor, The Old Guard, and Stowaway, demonstrating a body of work that moves seamlessly between intimate drama, large-scale cinema, and prestige television.
Performing under the name Hauschka, Bertelmann is internationally recognized for pioneering prepared-piano techniques and fully improvised performances that merge classical tradition with experimental sound design. With more than twenty albums and EPs released, he tours extensively worldwide and has collaborated with leading artists and ensembles including the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Icelandic experimental group Múm, and Grammy-winning violinist Hilary Hahn. Bertelmann is an active member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
ABOUT PRESSURE
From the producers of Darkest Hour, comes PRESSURE.
The extraordinary true story that would become WWII thriller PRESSURE, began its journey to the screen via the stage. In 2012, actor and playwright David Haig set out to tell the story of an unsung Scottish hero in a new play for the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. He chose as his subject Dr. James Stagg, the eminent meteorologist, not widely known outside his field, whose weather forecast would decide the fate of the largest seaborne invasion in history: D-DAY.
With millions of lives and the fate of the War at stake, Stagg went head-to-head with General Eisenhower and Allied leadership in the days immediately before the attack, becoming the key factor in the final, momentous decision, to go…or not go. Stagg had told his own story after the war, but it had never been fully examined or adapted, and Haig saw a jaw-dropping corner of history that needed to be explored.
The key addition came when the 2019 thriller Hotel Mumbai brought filmmaker Anthony Maras into focus who would go on to co-write, direct and edit the film, as well as serve as an executive producer.
The film stars Andrew Scott as James Stagg and Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser as Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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TRACKLISTING
- 1. A Catastrophe
- 2. Reporting for Duty
- 3. Welcome Aboard
- 4. Don’t Let Me Down
- 5. Data
- 6. Back To Work
- 7. Whatever The Weather
- 8. Entering The Meeting
- 9. One Mistake
- 10. Why the Weather
- 11. Three Hours
- 12. Come On
- 13. June 4th
- 14. Postponed
- 15. Clearing Up
- 16. Unusual
- 17. Go
- 18. D-Day
- 19. Footholds Established
- 20. Congratulations
- 21. Pressure Ending Credits
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