Hannibal Rising overview

Synopsis:

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.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Peter Webber
  • Studio: Quinta Communications, Ingenious Film Partners, Dino De Laurentiis Co., Weinstein Co.
  • Year: 2007
  • Run Time: 121 minutes
  • Country: France, UK, USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: R (for strong grisly violent content and some language/sexual references)
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Horror
  • Filmed in: Color
  • Release: 2007 02 09 (USA )

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