The Choral

Directed by Nicholas Hytner
R; 113 minutes

"A quiet and consistent pleasure: an unsentimental but deeply felt drama which subcontracts actual passion to the music of Elgar and leaves us with a heartbeat of wit, poignancy and common sense.” —Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

The year is 1916. As war rages on the Western Front, the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire has lost most of its men to the army. The Society’s ambitious committee, determined to press ahead, decides to recruit local male youth to swell their ranks. They must also engage a new chorus master, and despite their suspicions that he has something to hide, choose Dr. Henry Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes)—driven, uncompromising, and recently returned from a career in Germany. As conscription papers start to arrive, the whole community discovers that the best response to the chaos that is laying waste to their lives is to make music together.

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