Hannibal Rising

Directed by Peter Webber

With Gaspard Ulliel, Aaran Thomas, Gong Li, Dominic West and Rhys Ifans

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