The Choral (2025)

Directed by

Nicholas Hytner

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1916, a town choral society in Yorkshire recruits a mismatched group of locals to perform an Elgar piece for a wartime concert. The story follows the characters as they prepare and come together through the music.

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What happens

The Choral is a 2025 British historical drama film co-produced and directed by Nicholas Hytner and written by Alan Bennett. Set in 1916, during World War I, in the fictional town of Ramsden, Yorkshire, the film follows the members of the local choral society which recruits a disparate group of townspeople for a performance of Edward Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, a work chosen because it was not written by a German. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Roger Allam, Mark Addy, Alun Armstrong, Robert Emms, and Simon Russell Beale. The Choral premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in cinemas in the United Kingdom on 7 November 2025, by Sony Pictures Classics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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