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Set in 1916 Yorkshire, The Choral follows a community determined to find harmony amid the horrors of war. When Dr. Henry Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes) becomes their new chorus master, music becomes their refuge and resilience. In theaters November 7.

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00:01I often wanted to write about a choral society.

00:05The film's set in 1916 in a fictional village in Yorkshire, Milltown.

00:10Dr. Henry Guthrie is a choral master, a pire master.

00:14The choral society is struggling because a lot of young men are going off and being killed or wounded.

00:20Right boys, ready?

00:22And the choral society finds itself short of singers.

00:25When you read the script, what you get is this wonderful sense of community.

00:33They need to be able to gather communally and express themselves.

00:38It's a shared experience of the joy of music and the importance of music's ability to uplift,

00:46to transcend people's everyday trouble and strife.

00:50Joining up, I feel it's my patriotic duty.

00:53We'll need a new chorus, master.

00:56Ralph Fiennes plays Dr. Guthrie.

00:58Who's brought in to organise the choir, who are thinking they're going to sing Bach's St. Matthew Passion.

01:04But because of the anti-German sentiment, they decide they shouldn't.

01:08Dr. Guthrie.

01:09What?

01:10He's been working in Germany. Treachery.

01:13My character proposes that the choir sing Edward Elgar's dream of Gerontius.

01:19He realises that he can't do a full-blooded dream of Gerontius with this group.

01:24He needs to tailor it down.

01:27Altered it to make meaning of their lives.

01:30A young man appears from the front, who's been through hell of course, with a magically beautiful voice.

01:36You've been dealt some rough cards.

01:41So Guthrie decides to cast him as Drontius.

01:44So sing.

01:45Musical director Tom Brady, who is extremely gifted, he's coached all the actors.

01:51And was handed my folder of sheet music. I actually said to him, I was like, oh, I'm like proper singing.

01:58The amazing Natalie Mobile. She's had the formidable task of walking Rafe through what it means to conduct.

02:05The gesture of music in this film is intrinsically joined up with the people and the stories of these people in this film.

02:15In the end becomes, I think, the heart of the picture, you know.

02:19It's a really beautiful story of people finding something to hold on to in a time of uncertainty.

02:28It's actually almost a contemporary message, isn't it?

02:31It's important that the core of society should be allowed to flourish.

02:35And it is a relationship formed through the performance of music. It's formed through art.

02:40This is the genius of storytelling and great direction and great writing.

02:45It is wonderful music.

02:47It's beautifully observed.

02:49It's about the transformative power of music and the way music can actually make sense of your life.

02:56They've only played a few bars of that and I'm gone.

03:00I think that makes it special. I feel that that is what Nick is rendering that on film.

Inside Look at The Choral – In Theaters November 7

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