Rating: NR
Genre:
Horror
Theatrical Release: 02/09/2007(USA
Release Date: 05/29/2007
SubTitles: Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 131 Minutes
Flags: Profanity, Sexual Situations, Gore
Distributor/Studio: Weinstein Company
Curious filmgoers looking to get better acquainted with the silver screen's most notorious cannibalistic serial killer are sure to get their fair share of shocks and thrills as director
Peter Webber teams with author
Thomas Harris to explore the early life of well-read psychopath
Hannibal Lecter. Based on author
Harris' gruesome novel of the same name,
Hannibal Rising travels back in time to World War II-era Lithuania, where an impressionable, well-to-do young boy named
Hannibal (
Gaspard Ulliel) was forced to watch helplessly as his family was massacred and his young sister suffered a terrifying fate at the hands of desperate, famished soldiers. After seeking temporary shelter at the Soviet orphanage that was once his family's home,
Hannibal later flees to Paris in search of his long-lost uncle. Though his uncle has passed away, his uncle's beautiful Japanese widow,
Lady Murasaki (
Gong Li), warmly accepts the frightened orphan into her home. But even the love and kindness of this generous stranger isn't enough to calm the raging storm that is brewing inside this troubled young boy. Plagued by nightmares and determined to seek vengeance on the murderous war criminals who brutalized his family, the profoundly disturbed but academically gifted
Hannibal enrolls in medical school in order to hone the skills that will allow him to exact horrific justice.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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The Origin of a Sociopathic Killer.
Thomas Harris, the best-selling author of The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, and Red Dragon collaborates with director, Peter Webber in bring you the most chilling chapter in the saga based on Thomas Harris' (who wrote the adapted screenplay) recent best-selling novel which examines the events that to Hannibal Lecter becoming the viciously dangerous Hannibal the Cannibal. With Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Rhys Ifans, Dominic West, Richard Brake, Michael McKidd, and Aaron Thomas.
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