Hannibal Rising (VCD) (Hong Kong Version) VCD

Peter Webber (Girl with a Pearl Earring) directs the latest installment about the monstrous cannibal Hannibal Lecter, revealing the facts of his childhood and the birth of his troubled mind. When he is a young boy in Lithuania, Hannibal and his privileged family flee their castle as both the Nazi and Russian troops advance, going into hiding in a nearby humble cottage. But the war quickly finds them, and Hannibal witnesses horrible atrocities against his family, particularly from a local independent force of brutes led by the creepy Grutas (Rhys Ifans). Years after the war, teenage Hannibal (Gaspard Ulliel) leaves Lithuania and travels to France, where his uncle's wife, Lady Murasaki (Gong Li), takes him in and befriends him. A gifted medical student, Hannibal studies corpses and anatomy with extreme diligence, but dreams of tracking down and destroying those who harmed him and his family. Soon, he is acting on his impulses, hunting down the perpetrators from his youth and inflicting cruel punishment.

Ulliel is chilling as the stone-faced Hannibal, clearly scarred by his tragic past and ever more determined to exact revenge. Li is luminous onscreen, and her mysterious character deserves more development. Ifans, perhaps best known for his turn as the goofy roommate in Notting Hill, is a menacing bully with a heart of stone. Dominic West appears as Inspector Popil, a French detective specializing in war crimes who suffered his own losses during the war, making him sympathetic towards Hannibal even though he is convinced of his guilt. Thomas Harris, the author of the Hannibal series that also includes The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, and Hannibal, serves as screenwriter for the first time in the Hannibal films.

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Product Title:	Hannibal Rising (VCD) (Hong Kong Version) 沉默的羔羊前傳之揭開罪幕 (VCD) (香港版) 沉默的羔羊前传之揭开罪幕 (VCD) (香港版) Hannibal Rising (VCD) (Hong Kong Version) Hannibal Rising (VCD) (Hong Kong Version)
Artist Name(s):	Gong Li (Actor) | Ulliel Gaspard (Actor) | Rhys Ifans | Kevin McKidd | Brake Richard 鞏 俐 (Actor) | 加斯柏尤利爾 (Actor) | 韋伊凡斯 | 奇雲麥傑 | Richard Brake 巩 俐 (Actor) | 加斯柏尤利尔 (Actor) | 韦伊凡斯 | Kevin McKidd | Brake Richard 鞏俐（コン・リー） (Actor) | Ulliel Gaspard (Actor) | Rhys Ifans | Kevin McKidd | Brake Richard Gong Li (Actor) | Ulliel Gaspard (Actor) | Rhys Ifans | Kevin McKidd | Brake Richard
Director:	Peter Webber 彼得韋伯 彼得韦伯 Ｐｅｔｅｒ Ｗｅｂｂｅｒ Peter Webber
Release Date:	2007-05-28
Language:	English
Subtitles:	Traditional Chinese
Country of Origin:	United States
Disc Format(s):	VCD
Rating:	IIB
Duration:	122 (mins)
Publisher:	Intercontinental Video (HK)
Other Information:	2VCDs
Package Weight:	120 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1004831217

導演︰彼得韋伯
Director: Peter Rebber

二次大戰時，與少年歷達相依為命的妹妹慘遭變態士兵烹殺裹腹。逃過一劫的歷達後來被居於法國的叔叔收養，更遇上他生命中最重要的一個女人――叔叔神秘而美艷的日裔太太，《源氏物語》作者紫式部的後人（鞏俐 飾）。歷達不單從她身上學習各種知識，更加與她發生曖昧的不倫關係…直至他再次遇上那班殺妹仇人。歷達決意要以肉償肉，以血祭血，不單要趕盡殺絕，還要讓他們嚐盡最殘酷的痛苦！潛藏的嗜血本性，亦由此甦醒……

The story begins in Eastern Europe at the desperate end of World War II. For many it was no longer a conflict of nations but one of individual survival - at any cost. A young Hannibal watches from only steps away as his parents' violently die, leaving his cherished young sister in his care. This horrific moment will soon pale in comparison to the atrocities he is forced to witness and perhaps survive as a result of. Alone and without any means of support, he is forced to live in a Soviet Orphanage that once served as his family's beloved home. He flees to Paris to find his uncle has died but his beautiful and mysterious Japanese widow, Lady Murasaki (Gong Li) welcomes him. Even her kindness and love cannot soothe the nightmares and sorrows that plague him. Showing a cunning aptitude for science he is accepted into medical school, which serves to hone his skills and provide the tools to exact justice on the war criminals that haunt him day and night. This quest will ignite an insatiable lust within a serial killer who was not born, but made.