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

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Cast

Gaspard Ulliel

Hannibal Lecter

Gong Li

Lady Murasaki

Dominic West

Inspector Popil

Rhys Ifans

Vladis Grutas

Richard Brake

Enrikas Dortlich

Kevin McKidd

Petras Kolnas

Stephen Walters

Zigmas Milko

Richard Leaf

Father Lecter

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

Mother Lecter

Martin Hub

Lothar

Joerg Stadler

Berndt

Hugh Ross

Professor Dumas