Back Lot Music announces the release 
of Focus Features’ THE UPRISING Original Motion Picture Soundtrack with music by Academy Award®-winning composer Volker Bertelmann. The album is available everywhere digital music is sold and streamed.
“Working on THE UPRISING in collaboration with Paul Greengrass was a wonderful experience. The biggest challenge was finding a modern approach to a medieval era and capturing the rawness of that time without veering into the thriller genre,” Bertelmann notes. “I worked with distorted cello sounds to make the score feel more dystopian, while at the same time giving it a touch of a modern bagpipe atmosphere to lend the music a hint of a tribal character. Much of medieval music revolves around a simple fifth, and I tried to retain this as a fundamental foundation. I love the story of THE UPRISING because it draws many parallels with the present day and offers insights into how power was wielded in political life centuries ago and the similarities we see today. It’s a pleasure to be a creative part of this film.”
Andrew Garfield stars as the leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II. Set against the true events of the Uprising that helped inspire the legend of Robin Hood, he forms an army of the people to face the King’s might in a fight for justice.
The film hits theaters nationwide today in the United States – get your tickets at https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-uprising!
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. He won a multitude of awards, including Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Award) for Best Original Score for All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Edward Berger. Furthermore, he received Academy Award nominations for Conclave and Lion (co-scored with Dustin O’Halloran).
In 2026 Volker scored music for projects such as DC Studios’ Clayface, directed by James Watkins; Focus Features’ The Uprising, directed by Paul Greengrass; Amazon MGM Studios’ Verity, directed by Michael Showalter; Bunker, directed by Florian Zeller; and Pressure, directed by Anthony Maras.
Volker received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination 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.
Additional notable credits include A House of Dynamite, Ballad of a Small Player, Panic Carefully, 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 THE UPRISING
Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Greengrass (The Lost Bus, United 93, Captain Phillips and the Bourne franchise) comes The Uprising – a breathless ride through medieval England in the grip of revolution. Taking us from the wind-swept marshes of east England, to the decadent court of King Richard II, before finally throwing us into the blood-soaked streets of London as it is breached by the rebellion horde, The Uprising delivers urgent and visceral storytelling about a world turned upside down. A world very much like our own today.
Golden Globe® winner Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spiderman, We Live In Time, Hacksaw Ridge, Tick, Tick… Boom!) stars as Ploughman. Alongside him star (in alphabetical order): Jamie Bell (All Of Us Strangers, Rosebush Pruning, Billy Elliot), Stephen Dillane (Game of Thrones), Tom Hollander (The Night Manager, The White Lotus, Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans), Cosmo Jarvis (Warfare, Shogun), Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit, Last Night in Soho), Jonny Lee Miller (Elementary, Trainspotting), Woody Norman (C’mon C’mon), Stanley Townsend (The Regime, Kaos), Katherine Waterston (Babylon, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore) and Sky Yang (Last Days, Rebel Moon).
Jason Blum is producing through Blumhouse Atomic Monster, alongside Gregory Goodman, Joanna Kaye and Greengrass. Lars Sylvest will also produce through Thank You Pictures and Joe Neurauter will produce through Supernix.
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TRACK-LISTING
- Uprising Ouverture
- Enough
- Rising Up
- Confrontation
- Moving Together
- Place For A Miracle
- Carriages Approaching
- The King’s Arrival
- Parley
- Return To Your Homes
- The Book Of Doomsday
- Three Columns
- King
- Meet Your King
- Petitions
- Gates Of Hell
- Plundering
- Not Alone
- Horse Chase
- Your Charters
- The Trap
- The Pitfall
- Battlefield
- Grief
- Ambush
- The Duel
- No Kings
- Freeman
