--- title: 'Quartet (2012)' type: 'film' director: 'Dustin Hoffman' released: '2012-01-01' runtime_minutes: 98 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Comedy' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/quartet-2012' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1441951/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Quartet (2012) 2012 · 98 min · Drama, Comedy · United Kingdom ## Synopsis Quartet is a 2012 British comedy-drama film directed by Dustin Hoffman, in his directorial debut, and starring Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins and Michael Gambon as a group of retired opera singers at a home for musicians. Ronald Harwood wrote the screenplay, adapting his own play Quartet, which ran in London's West End from September 1999 until January 2000. The arrival of a former colleague at the retirement home complicates the residents' plans for an annual fundraising gala. The film was shot over nine weeks in 2011 at Hedsor House in Buckinghamshire. ## Credits - **Director:** [Dustin Hoffman](https://cinepixo.com/people/dustin-hoffman) - **Screenplay:** [Ronald Harwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronald-harwood) - **Original Music Composer:** [Dario Marianelli](https://cinepixo.com/people/dario-marianelli) - **Producer:** [Finola Dwyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/finola-dwyer) - **Director of Photography:** [John de Borman](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-de-borman) - **Editor:** [Barney Pilling](https://cinepixo.com/people/barney-pilling) ## Cast - [Tom Courtenay](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-courtenay) - [Pauline Collins](https://cinepixo.com/people/pauline-collins) - [Andrew Sachs](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-sachs) - [Sheridan Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/sheridan-smith) - [Billy Connolly](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-connolly) - [Michael Byrne](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-byrne) - [Eline Powell](https://cinepixo.com/people/eline-powell) - [Maggie Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/maggie-smith) - [Gwyneth Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/gwyneth-jones) - [Luke Newberry](https://cinepixo.com/people/luke-newberry) - [David Ryall](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-ryall) - [Trevor Peacock](https://cinepixo.com/people/trevor-peacock) - [Michael Gambon](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-gambon) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms/film/quartet Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/quartet-2012 Film facts: Wikidata (Q195525); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.