Hannibal Rising

Coming back to Lithuania, on his way from Paris (France) to Kaunas (Lithuania), Hannibal has his documents checked in Medininkai, so it must be a border town in western Lithuania.

In reality Medininkai is in eastern part of Lithuania on the Lithuanian - Belarusian border.

And as far as both countries were former Soviet Republics, Medininkai was not a frontier post at all.

When Hannibal Lecter is about to kill the guy in the houseboat when trying to rescue Lady Murasaki Shikibu, he has the guy on the ground with a knife next to his throat, with no blood on it, when the camera shoots back at Hannibal Lecter, the knife is shown with blood.

The "village" of Melville is actually quite a distance from Saskatoon (at least 4 hours away).

It is also not in the forest, but on the prairie.

While a group of soldiers are walking down the road, two planes fly over head and the trees show no movement, proving that they are CGI.

The antitank Stuka carried two 37mm cannon, not 20mm ones.

Each cannon carried 6, 8, or 12 rounds, depending on the clip loaded into the weapon.

These weapons were also rather slow firing (~160 rounds/minute).

Thus, the cannon would not have fired as shown in the film - not at the rate shown, nor for the length of time.

When the soldier pulls out the dog tag from Dortlich's mouth and examines it, he has no glove on his right hand, but when he turns around to examine the fire pit he removes a glove from his right hand.

If Hannibal had really been schooled in Japanese sword art, regardless of hand dominance, he'd have been holding the sword handle (tsuka) with his right hand on top and his left hand below.

The Japanese always draw with their right hand.

The French police is very unlikely to have used any polygraphs in the mid 1950s, particularly for 'normal' crimes like murder.

The foliage shown around the village of Melville at the end of the movie is not found on the Saskatchewan prairie.

Near the end of the movie, when the Inspector confronts Hannibal at school and escorts him to the police station, he arrives in a different shirt and hairstyle.

He goes from the police station to his aunt's apartment and is seen in yet another outfit and hairstyle; he then returns to school and is back in his original sweater and hair.

During Hannibal's confrontation with the butcher at the lake, he slices the man several times and apparently very deeply, yet there is no blood on the sword's blade until the very last cut.

When Stuka plane crashes into the T-34 tank, there is a huge explosion, but the Stuka plane frame seems intact after the crash, just burning.

Such impact would take place at some 300km/h, thus there would be just small scraps left from the plane.

When Hannibal makes his first kill, you see in a far off shot that he walks several steps from his victim.

In the next shot, he spins and chops off the guys head and is suddenly relatively close to the victim.

WWII German "dogtags" didn't have the name of the soldier on them.

Instead they listed the unit that they were in when the tag was issued, and a serial number.

Yes this movie was a technically well made French film and had a seemingly original setting and plot. Young Lector is a Lithuanian child, son of a nobleman, caught in the retreat of 1944.

The plot of the story thickened as the movie went on just as any good film plot should! Gaspard was an excellent Hannibal and took on the legendary gory scenes and devilish acts of the deranged Hannibal Lecter very well!

Very good movie.Better than Lucky number Slevin.

I avoided this movie for years. After seeing "Hannibal" I had no interest in seeing how he became the monster he was.

REveals" about THE Youth Of THe famous HanNiBAL lectEr That PSYcho-pathic MURDERer and HUman-EATer of the"movie The SILENce OF THE lambs. When HE was A=LITtle kid during Ww2 in LithuAnia HE SAW how HUNGERY RUSsian NKWD-SOLdiers ate his LITtle Sister.

As a fan of the Hannibal Lecter movies, I absolutely loved this one!We have seen Hannibal Lecter in action before.

How did Hannibal Lecter become himself? When will Thomas Harris' incredible prequel "HANNIBAL RISING" be a movie?

When a writer decides "hey let's make the main character a ninja or something!" you know that the series has gone wrong.

I was astonished to see it both in positive and negative sense. The movie tells the story of young Hannibal and how he turned into a monster.