Rural Cinema - The Choral

A Choir, a War, and Ralph Fiennes

Yorkshire, 1916 — men are enlisting, the community is fraying, and the local choral society is barely holding together. Into this arrives Dr. Henry Guthrie, the new chorus master: driven, uncompromising, and recently returned from a career in Germany at the worst possible moment. Ralph Fiennes plays him, which tells you something about the register the film is pitched at.

The Choral is about what a community does when catastrophe closes in — and its answer is to keep singing. Screening at Corinium Museum as part of their Rural Cinema series; certificate 15, running two hours, tickets £8–£9 and sponsored by Sewell Mullings Logie.

With Fiennes in that role — principled, German-adjacent, in 1916 Yorkshire — the film has enough friction to earn its drama.

Saturday 30 May 2026 · Corinium Museum, Park Street, Cirencester GL7 2BX · Starts 14:00