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












6th February 2007
19 years ago
2 hours 1 minute
Finishes at 6:45pm
$75,000,000 ($120,885,000 today)
Revenue $82,169,884



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