Hannibal Rising(2007)

movie - first aired/released 2007-02-06 - 121 min - audience 6.3

Crime, Thriller, Horror

Directed by Peter Webber

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill and learnt sword skills from his Japanese girlfriend, who happened to have similar fate