Hannibal (TV series)

Television series
German title	Hannibal
Original title	Hannibal
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	2013-2015
Production company	Living Dead Guy Productions, Gaumont International Television
length	43 minutes
Episodes	39 in 3 seasons ( list )
genre	Psychological thriller , crime novel , drama , horror
idea	Bryan Fuller
production	Carol Dunn Trussell
music	Brian Reitzell
First broadcast	April 4, 2013 (USA) on NBC
German-language first broadcast	September 30, 2013 on pulse 4
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Hannibal is a US psychological thriller - crime series by Bryan Fuller . The series begins with the prehistory of the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris , but also has characteristics of a reinterpretation, which means that there are some differences in content to the actual story of the book series. At the beginning of the series, psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter asked to assist FBI agent Will Graham in investigating serial killers. That Dr. Lecter himself is a serial killer who eats organs from his victims is initially unnoticed by Will Graham. All three seasons are approved for ages 18 and over. It first aired in the United States on April 4, 2013 on NBC .

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Hannibal Lecter

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Dr. Lecter is a psychiatrist who previously practiced as a surgeon. In his youth, under initially unknown circumstances, he was brought to eat meat from Mischa by the murderer of his sister Misha. So he leads a double life as the serial killer known as the Chesapeake Ripper who removes organs from his victims. While the FBI believes the ripper is keeping the organs as trophies, he instead consumes them and also serves them to ignorant friends and acquaintances. The cultivated and courteous Dr. Lecter regularly hosts celebratory dinners for Baltimore high society, where he prepares the dishes himself. He maintains a friendly relationship with his colleague Dr. Alana Bloom and also visits his own psychiatrist Bedelia Du Maurier regularly, from whom he hides his dark side.

Lecter complies with FBI Director Jack Crawford's request to assist Will Graham in his investigation into serial killers. When Graham also becomes a Lecter's patient, a friendship develops between the two of them. Dr. Lecter tries to make it clear to Graham in their conversations that Jack Crawford is using him and that Graham is psychologically ruined by constantly putting himself in the shoes of serial killers. Although he actually feels friendly towards Graham, Dr. Lecter is playing a double game in the investigation. For example, he doesn't tell Will that encephalitis is causing his delusions and instead claims that Will is insane, which contributes to Will's incarceration. Unlike his usual approach to the Chesapeake Ripper murders , Lecter copies the approach of wanted serial killers and thus misleads the FBI. Finally, faced with the danger that Graham could discover his secret, Lecter sees that his friend is innocently imprisoned as a copycat killer for murders he has committed himself.

Hannibal encourages Jack's wife, Bella, who has cancer, to kill herself. While Bella is about to die from a morphine overdose in his office, Lecter tosses a coin and decides to save Bella's life. When forensic scientist Beverly Katz tracks him down and searches his house, Hannibal kills Beverly. Then Matthew Brown instigated by Will tries to kill Hannibal. At the last second, Dr. Lecter saved by Jack. Because Dr. Lecter throws a dinner party shortly after several Ripper murders, Jack has the food cooked there examined. Hannibal then sleeps with Alana and uses her as an alibi, while Dr. Gideon kidnapped from prison psychiatric intensive care and Gideon, who is obsessed with Dr. Chilton believed himself to be the ripper whose own leg was served as the last meal. At the same time, Hannibal ensures that Jack finds his student Miriam Lass, who was believed to be dead, as well as evidence that the Chesapeake Ripper is the copycat killer . Because Dr. Lecter has thus deliberately proven Will's innocence, he lays a false lead, which the FBI leads to Dr. Chilton leads. Lecter kills the FBI agents ringing Chilton's house, leaving grave evidence, all against Dr. Talk to Chilton. Miriam Lass, manipulated by Hannibal, finally claims Chilton is the ripper and shoots him.

After Will Graham is free again, Hannibal takes him back as a patient and no longer tries to hide his dark side from Will. Lecter urges his ex-patient Randall Tier to attack Will. Hannibal watches as Graham kills animal with his own hands. When his Will-driven patient Mason Verger tries to feed Hannibal to his pigs, Lecter is rescued by Graham at the last minute. Hannibal drugs Mason and makes him feed his face to Will's dogs and eat his own nose. Together with Graham, Dr. Lecter flee. However, he realizes that Will was only pretending to kill Freddie Lounds and that they did not eat the meat of Lounds, but the meat of Randall Tier. When Jack tries to convict him, Dr. Lecter makes the FBI director difficult and lets his girlfriend Alana, who also discovered Hannibal's secret, push out the window by Abigail, who is believed to be dead. In revenge for Will's betrayal, Hannibal first seriously injures Graham and then cuts Abigail's throat in front of him. Thereupon Hannibal and Bedelia, who surprises him in her abandoned house, escape.

Dr. Lecter kills the curator Dr. Roman Fell as well as his wife and together with Bedelia assumes the identity of the couple in Florence. In the palace chapel in Palermo, where Hannibal had draped a corpse, he observes Will, who follows him into the catacombs and says - without meeting him - that he forgives him. In conversation with Bedelia, Hannibal realizes that Will influenced him to betray himself through the feelings he has evoked in him. Through Bedelia's words, he comes to the conclusion that the only way to forgive Will is by eating him. Hannibal deliberately ensures the disappearance of several of Dr. Fell to lure people to Italy from his previous life. He hangs the police officer Rinaldo Pazzi and is then seriously injured by Jack Crawford. Nevertheless, afterwards in Florence he manages to overpower both Will and Jack. He begins by cutting open Will's skull. In doing so, however, he is attacked by corrupt police officers who are Dr. Surrender Lecter and Graham to Mason Verger, interrupted. In return for his release, Hannibal promises his ex-girlfriend Alana that he will save Will. He eliminates Mason's henchman Cordell and instigates Margot to kill her brother himself. In Will's apartment, Dr. Lecter asked by Graham to get out of his life forever. Hannibal resists this wish by waiting for Jack Crawford and allowing himself to be arrested voluntarily. Because he claims to have committed Margot's murder of Mason himself, Dr. Lecter finds an unusually comfortable cell in the Baltimore prison psychiatry with the help of new director Alana and is declared insane.

After three years, Hannibal is finally visited by Will as part of the investigation into the murders of Francis Dolarhyde. When Dolarhyde succeeds in contacting Hannibal, Dr. Lecter encourages the serial killer to attack Will's new family. Bedelia reveals to Will that Hannibal is in love with him. Because Jack Crawford tries to lure Dolarhyde by faking an outbreak of Hannibal, all guards are shot by the Red Dragon during a prisoner transport and Hannibal actually gains his freedom. Together with Will Graham, Dr. Lecter goes to a vacation home and realizes that Dolarhyde follows them and wants to kill him. In a brutal fight, Will and Hannibal gain the upper hand in the end and kill the red dragon together. During a hug that follows, Hannibal shows his real feelings for Will before the two plunge into the waves over an abyss.

Will Graham

Will Graham is a profiler who has a special skill. This ability is often described in the series as a form of disproportionately strong empathy and imagination that is unique. Dr. Lecter describes this ability as a kind of curse and blessing at the same time. The ability activates automatically. Will Graham is thus able on the one hand, but also condemned to empathize with all sentient beings. Hence his psychological instability. His strong empathy enables him to understand the emotional world of people down to the bottom of their soul and to reconstruct the process of a murder exactly by reliving the course of events in his imagination. In this fantasy he takes on the role of the murderer. It is indicated in the first season that it is a much discussed and highly interesting case in professional circles. There is a great interest in studying it.

Will Graham is no longer in active service as he is considered mentally unstable. In addition, his method has been criticized for making jumps that cannot be explained. His mental instability runs through the entire series, especially in the first two seasons it is crucial for the plot. Will Graham's role on the series begins with his being used by the director of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit , Jack Crawford, to reconstruct the motif of the serial killer. Although his psychiatrist and friend Dr. Lecter points out to him that it does him harm to put himself in the shoes of serial killers, Graham refuses to accept an offer to terminate Jack Crawford. When he shoots serial killer Garrett Jacob Hobbs, it becomes increasingly difficult for him to remain self-aware and not completely fall into the role of Hobbs, who used Abigail's help as decoys to kill girls who looked like his daughter Abigail the victim consumed. He suffers more and more from nightmares in which he sees himself in the role of Hobbs and other serial killers, and sometimes even sleepwalked into the practice of his psychiatrist. As the murderer of Abigail's father, he feels like Dr. Lecter in charge of the girl. Although he realizes that Dr. Lecter Abigail helped cover up a murder, Graham continues to be intimate with his psychiatrist and does not discover the dark side of him. It is only when Lecter ensures that Graham ends up innocently behind bars for the murder of Abigail and other murders committed by Lecter as a copycat killer that Graham realizes that his friend Hannibal is behind these crimes.

At the prison psychiatry, Graham first tries to convince all of his visitors that Hannibal committed the Copycat murders. Only forensic scientist Beverly Katz takes his innocence into consideration, and thus tracks down Hannibal after Graham tells her he realized that Dr. Lecter is the Chesapeake Ripper . Because Hannibal eventually kills Beverly, Will incites prison guard and serial killer Matthew Brown to try Dr. Kill Lecter. Through this indirect murder attempt, Graham finally puts him in a bad light in front of all his acquaintances. He then lets himself be contacted by the prison psychiatry director Dr. Treating Chilton and causing Chilton to distrust Dr. Develop Lecter. By deliberately letting the FBI know that the Chesapeake Ripper and the Copycat Killer are the same person, Lecter proves Will's innocence. After regaining his freedom, Will speaks openly with Hannibal and also shares visions with him in which he kills him in revenge for the alleged death of Abigail and the death of Beverly.

Hannibal helps Will explore his dark side, and so Graham kills serial killer Randall Tier with his own hands while he is attacked by him. Will then pretends to kill the tabloid journalist Freddie Lounds to convince Hannibal that he has finally become a serial killer. He brings Hannibal meat from Randall Tier, which he claims to be the meat of Lounds, and eats it with Hannibal. Graham sleeps with Lecter's patient Margot Verger, who is actually homosexual and uses him to get pregnant. Margot loses Will's child, however, because she was mutilated on the orders of her brother Mason. Will drives Mason to catch Hannibal and feed him to his pigs. At the last moment, however, Will decides to free Hannibal. Graham then watches in his own house as Hannibal drugged Mason feeds his face to Will's dogs and devours his own nose. He does not tell Jack that he had a personal motive for harming Mason because of Margot's lost child. Thereupon Will claims to want to flee with Hannibal and suggests that he reveal himself to Jack beforehand. When Jack Crawford's supervisor tries to arrest everyone involved, Will decides to warn Hannibal and actually go with him. Because Dr. Lecter has previously seen through that Freddie Lounds is alive and Will no longer trusts, he initially injures Will seriously and then cuts the throat of Abigail, who was believed to be dead and who wanted to take Hannibal with her on their escape, before Will's eyes in revenge for his betrayal.

After his recovery, Will travels to Florence and tells Hannibal that he has forgiven him. He is also trying to find out more about Dr. Learn about Lecter's past. Graham meets Chiyoh and frees the murderer of Mischa Lecter, who was held captive on the family estate. After Chiyoh kills the man, Will disfigures the stranger's corpse and gives it the shape of an insect. When Hannibal tries to cut open the top of his skull in Florence, both are extradited to Mason Verger by corrupt police officers. Graham bites part of the cheek out of Verger's henchman Cordell and is eventually saved by Hannibal. After Hannibal surrendered to Jack Crawford, Will breaks contact with his former colleagues and Dr. Lecter leaves and marries Molly.

Three years after Hannibal's arrest, Jack Crawford turns up and asks him for help in solving the murders of Francis Dolarhyde. Although Will actually wants to stay away from his old life, Jack's insistence, the persuasion of his wife and a letter from Hannibal persuade him to consent. Because he is only concerned with Dr. Lecter's help has succeeded in fully understanding serial killers, he goes to see his old companion. He becomes a patient of Dr. You Maurier and talks to her openly about his ambivalent feelings for Hannibal and dreams in which he kills Molly in the same way as the Red Dragon. After Dolarhyde attacks Will's family at Hannibal's behest and Molly is seriously injured in the process, Bedelia explains that Hannibal only "allowed" him to build a family because he knew that he could take it from him again, which he and Will subsequently did admits, also made it. When she answers Will's question whether Hannibal is in love with him and asks him whether he reciprocates his feelings, Will gives no answer. To provoke and lure Dolarhyde out, Will stages a provocative interview with Dr. Chilton. He later admits in a conversation with Bedelia that he was not surprised that his actions led to the mistreatment and distortion of Chilton by the Red Dragon. In a conversation with Dolarhyde, Will promises to hand Hannibal over to him. He then convinces Jack Crawford to stage an attempt to escape, but in which Hannibal is actually freed and all FBI guards are shot by Dolarhyde. While they wait for the family killer in one of Hannibal's secret houses, Will admits that he plans to watch him "transform" Hannibal and seems to accept that he may not be able to save himself either. When the red dragon Dr. Lecter wants to kill, but Will intervenes at the last second. In cooperation with Hannibal he defeats and kills Dolarhyde. Will realizes that he found the act of killing together with Lecter "beautiful", hugs Hannibal and lets himself and his friend plunge over an abyss into the sea.

Jack Crawford

Jack Crawford is the director of the Behavioral Analysis Unit and thus, among other things, Will Graham's supervisor. He understands that Graham suffers from empathizing with serial killers, but considers it a necessary sacrifice. Crawford admires the intelligence of Dr. Lecter and is enthusiastic about the cooking skills of the psychiatrist, whose advice he often seeks. Jack is grateful to Lecter for rescuing his wife Bella after she attempted suicide. Only when Will Graham's innocence has been proven does he begin to believe his accusations against Hannibal. Jack helps Will fake Freddie Lounds' death and covers Will's self-defense murder of Randall Tier. In addition, Crawford, unaware of Graham's connection to Margot Verger, approves of Will's plan to abuse Mason Verger to catch Hannibal in the act. When this fails because the mutilated Verger does not testify against Hannibal, Crawford insists that Dr. Lecter reveals himself to him before attempting to flee with Graham. Crawford is seriously injured in a confrontation at Hannibal's apartment, before Dr. Lecter can escape alone.

Jack survives and spends the next few months exclusively with his cancer-stricken wife. Because Bella is in severe pain, he eventually euthanizes. Crawford travels to Florence fearing that Will Graham will bring Dr. Lecter wants to kill and takes the place of the serial killer. He meets the police officer Rinaldo Pazzi, who, behind Crawford's back, wants to hand Hannibal over to Mason Verger, but is killed by Lecter in the process. In a subsequent fight, Jack inflicts serious injuries to Hannibal. When Crawford pushes the serial killer out of a window, Dr. Lecter himself by climbing down over Pazzi's hanging corpse and escaping. In another encounter, Crawford is overwhelmed and tied up by Hannibal. Corrupt police officers prevent a Dr. Lecter arranges dinner and wants to kill Crawford for turning Will and Hannibal over to Mason Verger and not wanting to leave witnesses. However, the policeman who stays behind and tries to kill Jack is shot by Chiyoh. After Hannibal Lecter surrendered to him, Crawford was rehabilitated and resumed his job with the FBI. Three years later he visits Will Graham and asks him to help him investigate the murders of the Red Dragon. After Graham initially refused to work together again, Crawford instrumentalized Will's new wife Molly to change his mind. Crawford's attempt to kill Francis Dolarhyde through a staged outbreak by Dr. Attracting Lecter fails and results in the death of all FBI guards and the actual liberation of Hannibal.

Alana Bloom

Dr. Bloom is a colleague and friend of Dr. Lecter. She addresses Hannibal by his first name and maintains a familiar relationship with him without the politeness that Lecter otherwise values. The psychologist has conducted studies on Will Graham's particular mindset and recommends Jack Crawford Dr. Lecter as a psychiatrist to get a second opinion on Graham. For Graham, Dr. Bloom has romantic feelings that she doesn't want to live out as long as Graham's state of mind is unstable. After Will instigated the prison guard Matthew Brown to kill Hannibal, she loses her trust in Graham and begins a love affair with Hannibal. Only when she believes that Freddie Lounds was killed by Will under Hannibal's spiritual guidance does Alana begin to distrust Hannibal. When Jack Crawford tries to convict Hannibal, Alana tries to kill Hannibal with a gun whose magazine was previously emptied by Lecter. Then Alana is pushed out of the window by Abigail, who was believed dead. Despite a long therapy, she still needs a stick to move around afterwards. She supports Mason Verger in the search for Hannibal and begins a relationship with Margot. To save Will's life, Alana helps Hannibal break free after being kidnapped by Mason's henchman. She then supports Margot in the murder of Mason. Alana then starts a family with Margot and Mason's biological child, who she carried to term, and she takes over the reins of Baltimore prison psychiatry. Because Hannibal pretends to have murdered Mason, she prevents him from receiving the death penalty after his arrest and gives him an unusually comfortable cell. However, because of the secret phone calls with Francis Dolarhyde, she deprives her ex-boyfriend of all privileges. Shortly before his escape, Hannibal reminds her again that he has promised her to kill her. After Hannibal escapes, Alana can be seen leaving the Verger estate with Margot and her son to flee to an undisclosed location.

Bedelia Du Maurier

Dr. Du Maurier is a colleague of Dr. Lecter. She closed her practice after being assaulted by a patient whom she, driven by Lecter, tricked into swallowing his tongue. Lecter himself is Du Maurier's only remaining patient. She is aware that Lecter is only showing her part of his personality. Du Maurier wants to keep his personal distance from her patient and also points out to Lecter that he cannot be Will Graham's friend and psychiatrist at the same time. Because she sees through Hannibal more and more, Bedelia finally escapes, but is found by Jack Crawford and taken into custody. She confesses to Crawford and Graham about the murder of their patient and her suspicions about Hannibal, and receives immunity from her own crime because of her testimony, so she is released. When she returns to her house, she meets Hannibal there, who uses her home to wash off the blood in his own house after the massacre before he wants to leave the country. She decides to flee to Europe with him. In Florence she pretends to be Hannibal's wife under a false identity. Because of her morbid curiosity, she participates in the murders of Dr. Lecter. When Hannibal surrendered to the FBI, she successfully pretended to be the victim of brainwashing. She accepts Will's treatment and is shocked by Graham's intention to give Hannibal a chance to escape, as she fears he will eat him. After the whereabouts of Hannibal and Will have been left open, the shocked Bedelia sits at a table with three chairs on which her roasted leg lies, and hides a fork.

Abigail Hobbs

Abigail Hobbs helped her father, Garrett Jacob Hobbs, as a decoy, killing girls who looked like herself, and removing organs from them for human consumption. Because Lecter secretly warns him of the arrival of Will Graham, her father kills her mother and also seriously injures Abigail. After Graham shot Hobbs, Dr. Lecter the seriously injured Abigail's life. Both Lecter and Graham feel responsible for Abigail as a result. Dr. Lecter, out of curiosity, wants to find out how similar Abigail is to her father, so he arranges a confrontation between Abigail and the brother of one of her father's victims. Abigail kills the teenager. Lecter later portrays what happened to Graham as self-defense and convinces him not to tell Jack Crawford about it. Graham, now suffering from a serious identity crisis, suspects that Garrett Jacob Hobbs was helped in his murders by his daughter, and drives with Abigail to her father's hunting lodge. Fearful of Graham, who was increasingly identifying with her father, Abigail escapes and meets Dr. Lecter telling her the FBI found out she helped her father pick the girls. Lecter reveals to Abigail that he killed many more people than her father and that out of curiosity about what would happen, he warned her father about the FBI investigation. When Abigail asked if he would kill her too, Dr. Lecter that he was sorry he couldn't save her in this life. The following day, Will Graham wakes up with no recollection of what actually happened and vomits one of Abigail's ears. Abigail's skin is also found under Graham's fingernails. When Dr. Lecter's secret has been exposed and Alana shoots Hannibal, Abigail, who was believed to be dead, suddenly stands in front of her and pushes her out of the window. After Hannibal originally wanted to flee with Will and Abigail, he instead injures Will seriously because of Graham's betrayal and kills Abigail by slitting her throat, just as her father did. After Will wakes up in the hospital, Abigail appears to him as a hallucination, which drives him to go in search of Hannibal. The flashbacks of the third season show how Hannibal draws blood from her in her parents' house and she consciously helps him to fake her own death. When Will calls Hannibal to warn him that the FBI knows about everything, she doesn't understand why she and Hannibal don't escape immediately.

Frederick Chilton

Dr. Chilton is the director of prison psychiatry in Baltimore. Initially he maintains a friendly relationship with Dr. Lecter. Chilton is obsessed with the idea that medic Dr. Abel Gideon is the Chesapeake Ripper , and goes beyond ethical boundaries in his therapy. The escaped Dr. Gideon has several organs removed from Chilton when he is conscious. When Will Graham is assigned to his department as a copycat killer , Chilton Graham initially does not believe. After Graham allows him to take over his treatment, suspicions also grow in Chilton that Hannibal is the Ripper. After Lecter sets the wrong lead and kills several FBI agents in Chilton's apartment, Chilton is arrested as a ripper. Then the ripper victim Miriam Lass shoots him. After his recovery, Chilton writes a book about Hannibal. After insulting statements about the Red Dragon by Will Graham during an interview, he is kidnapped by Francis Dolarhyde. Chilton loses a large part of his face after being bitten by the Red Dragon and suffers severe burns all over his body.

Beverly Katz

Beverly Katz works for the FBI as a forensic scientist and supports Jack Crawford in his investigation. When Will Graham is accused of being a copycat killer , she is the first person to consider Graham's innocence. In her investigation, Beverly comes to Dr. Lecter on the trail. When she searches his apartment, Lecter kills her.

Miriam Lass

Miriam Lass is training to be an FBI agent when Jack Crawford asks her to conduct research on the Chesapeake Ripper . She finds out that one of the Ripper victims was a patient of Dr. Lecter was when he was still a general practitioner. When Lass visits Lecter in his practice, she accidentally sees a drawing of a victim by Hannibal. Thereupon she is overwhelmed by Hannibal and remains missing for over two years. An alleged recorded call for help from Miriam leads Jack Crawford to her amputated arm. Later, Dr. Lecter for helping Crawford find the living Miriam. When, behind the mirrored glass pane of an interrogation room, Dr. Chilton sees, shoots Miriam with Jack's gun at Chilton and explains that Chilton is the ripper.

Abel Gideon

Dr. Gideon is a medic who killed his family and was discovered by Dr. Chilton's therapy, after all, believes herself to be the Chesapeake Ripper . In prison, he kills a nurse, copying the Ripper's approach. After he was able to escape, Gideon kidnapped Dr. Chilton and Freddie Lounds, and Chilton removes several organs while still alive. He is then tracked down by the hallucinatory Will and taken to Dr. Brought to Lecter's apartment. There Lecter reveals himself to Gideon as the real Ripper. When Gideon tries to kill Alana Bloom, he is gunned down by Will. After his recovery, he tells Dr. Bloom for hearing jailer Matthew Brown being instigated by Will Graham to turn Dr. Kill Lecter. Gideon helps Lecter solve his Dr. Blaming Chilton. When he provokes two prison guards, Dr. Gideon pushed down the stairs and seriously injured. From the intensive care unit of prison psychiatry, Gideon is replaced by Dr. Lecter kidnapped. Then he receives from Dr. Lecter serves his own leg as a last meal and eventually dies in Chilton's apartment.

Bella Crawford

Bella met her husband Jack Crawford in Italy. When Jack asks her if it is too late to have another child, she is already suffering from lung cancer. At dinner together, Dr. Lecter Bella's cancers by their smell. She becomes the patient of the psychiatrist who convinces her that suicide is not defeat, but redemption. Bella consumes a morphine overdose and goes to Dr. Lecter to give him an ancient coin and die there. However, by tossing a coin, Hannibal decides to save Bella. Shortly before Dr. Lecter's escape asks Hannibal to protect her husband for her. When Bella's pain finally becomes unbearable, Jack relieves her by euthanasia.

Mason Verger

Mason Verger is a wealthy meat manufacturer. He enjoys the tears of children, which he likes to drink with a martini. Mason also mistreated his sister Margot. When he was told by Dr. If Lecter wants to learn the contents of Margot's treatment, he becomes Lecter's patient himself. With his rude behavior, Mason quickly falls out of favor with his psychiatrist. Because Lecter encouraged Margot to get pregnant, Mason, instigated by Will Graham, wants to feed Hannibal to his pigs. At the last second, however, Lecter is freed by Graham. After Mason's helpers were killed by Lecter, he found himself in his office. There, Mason is drugged by his psychiatrist and tricked into feeding his face to Graham's dogs and eating his own nose in Will Graham's apartment. Then Dr. Lecter Mason's neck, which not only disfigures him, but also relies on a wheelchair. Mason then wants revenge on both Hannibal and Will and bribes Italian police officers who extradite him. Verger plans to use Graham's face as a mask and Dr. Lecter to eat. Instead, however, he is shocked to find that he is wearing the face of his henchman Cordell and that Hannibal Will's operation has been prevented. Then he is drowned by Margot and Alana.

Margot Verger

Margot Verger is Dr. Lecter's patient and Mason Verger's sister. She is mistreated by Mason and therefore wishes to kill her brother. Lecter tries to encourage Margot in this plan. However, because of their parents' will, only male descendants can inherit the Verger estate. Although she is actually gay, she uses Will Graham to get pregnant. When Mason learns of Margo's pregnancy, he has her ovaries and uterus removed. After Mason mutilates himself under drugs, Margot enjoys Mason's addiction. She begins a relationship with Alana Bloom the following year. Mason admits to Margot that her baby was not aborted at the time, but that he found a surrogate mother for the embryo. Together with Alana, she finds a pig that contains her and Will's baby. Although, according to Alana, the baby's heart is no longer beating, they get it out of the pig. While Mason is anesthetized, Hannibal helps the two of them extract semen from Mason so they can get a male tan. After Dr. Lecter has encouraged Margot to break free from her brother, she drowns Mason with the help of Alana. Both women stay together and together take care of the Vergersohn whom Alana carried out.

Chiyoh

Chiyoh was Hannibal's aunt Murasaki's maid. She stopped Lecter from killing his sister Misha's murderer, and has since imprisoned the man in unworthy circumstances. After Will has released the stranger, she kills Misha's murderer in self-defense. She goes to Florence and prevents Will from killing Hannibal. She also saves Jack Crawford's life by shooting a corrupt police officer. In North America, Chiyoh helps Dr. Lecter escapes from Mason Verger's estate with Graham.

Francis Dolarhyde

Francis Dolarhyde was abused during his childhood and became obsessed with transforming into the Red Dragon. As part of his serial murders, he kills several families with children. Dolarhyde begins a relationship with his blind colleague Reba and tries to end his series of murders. He contacts Dr. Lecter to share his admiration and his feelings for Reba. He then wants to sacrifice Molly Graham to replace Reba the Red Dragon and inflicts serious gunshot wounds on Will's wife. Because Dr. Chilton insults him in an interview directed by Graham, Dolarhyde bites off Chilton's lips and sends them to Hannibal. Then he lets Chilton fall into a well in a burning wheelchair. When he feels betrayed by Hannibal, he wants to free his role model with Will Graham's help and then kill him. Because Lecter and Graham eventually team up against him in a brutal fight, his stomach is slit open by Will and his throat is bitten out by Hannibal at the same time.

production

Work on Hannibal began back in November 2011 when Katie O'Connell contacted her longtime friend Bryan Fuller , who previously wrote on the NBC series Heroes , to write a script for a pilot episode of the series. Before the end of its work, NBC secured the rights to the series and said, if they liked the script, they would give the series a direct series order. In February 2012, the station announced the production of a first season with 13 episodes without a regular pilot episode having been produced beforehand.

British actor Hugh Dancy was the first to sign (as Will Graham). At the end of March 2012 it was announced that the director David Slade , known for 30 Days of Night and Eclipse - Till (s) zum Abendrot , would direct the first episode. Slade also served as executive producer on Hannibal . In June 2012, the title role was finally cast with Mads Mikkelsen .

Filming began on August 27, 2012 in Toronto , Canada .

Cast and dubbing

The German synchronization was created by the synchronous company Arena synchronous GmbH in Berlin under the dialogue director of Florian Halm and after dialogue books by Nadine spirit .

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  Mads Mikkelsen plays Dr. Hannibal Lecter

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  Hugh Dancy plays Will Graham

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  Caroline Dhavernas plays Dr. Alana Bloom

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  Laurence Fishburne plays Jack Crawford

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  Gillian Anderson plays Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier

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  Scott Thompson plays Dr. Jimmy Price

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  Aaron Abrams plays Dr. Brian Zeller

Role name	actor	Main role (episode)	Supporting role (episode)	Voice actor
Dr. Hannibal Lecter	Mads Mikkelsen	1.01-3.13		Matthias Klie
Will Graham	Hugh Dancy	1.01-3.13		Marcel Collé
Dr. Alana Bloom	Caroline Dhavernas	1.01-3.13		Susanne Geier
Beverly Katz	Hettienne Park	1.01–2.05		Victoria Storm
Special Agent Jack Crawford	Laurence Fishburne	1.01-3.13		Leon Boden
Jimmy Price	Scott Thompson	2.01-3.13	1.01-1.13	Gerald Schaale
Brian Zeller	Aaron Abrams	2.01-3.13	1.01-1.13	Matthias Deutelmoser
Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier	Gillian Anderson	3.01-3.13	1.07-2.13	Franziska Pigulla
Abigail Hobbs	Kacey Rohl		1.01-1.12, 2.04, 2.13, 3.02, 3.04, 3.09	Anita Hopt
Garret Jacob Hobbs	Vladimir Jon Cubrt		1.01-1.13, 2.13	Erich Rauker
Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds	Lara Jean Chorostecki		1.02-2.13, 3.09, 3.12	Shandra Schadt
Bella Crawford	Gina Torres		1.04-1.05, 2.04, 2.13	Sabine Arnhold
Miriam Lass	Anna Chlumsky		1.06-1.07, 2.06-2.07	Magdalena Turba
Dr. Abel Gideon	Eddie Izzard		1.06, 1.11, 2.01-2.06, 3.01	Michael Iwannek
Dr. Frederick Chilton	Raúl Esparza		1.06, 1.11-3.13	Johannes Berenz
Kade Prurnell	Cynthia Nixon		2.01-2.03, 2.13	Marina Krogull
Margot Verger	Katharine Isabelle		2.08-3.07, 3.13	Sonja Spuhl
Mason Verger	Michael Pitt		2.10-2.13	Björn Schalla
	Joe Anderson		3.04-3.07
Chiyoh	Tao Okamoto		3.03-3.13	Ursula Hugo
Francis Dolarhyde	Richard Armitage		3.08-3.13	Torben Liebrecht

Remarks

1. ↑ Mostly irregular appearances in the period mentioned

Guest appearances

Role name	Actress	Guest appearance	Voice actor
Mrs. Komeda	Ellen Greene	1.07	Marina Krogull
Peter Bernardone	Jeremy Davies	2.08-2.09	Matthias Deutelmoser
Clark Ingram	Chris Diamantopoulos	2.08	Frank Schaff
Neal Frank	Zachary Quinto	3.01, 3.10	Timmo Niesner

Charisma

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United States

The first broadcast in the USA began on April 4, 2013 on NBC . At the premiere, the first episode was able to convince with 4.36 million viewers and even exceeded the broadcasting time of the station for a year. In addition, this value is the broadcaster's highest audience rating since January 17, 2013. This rate increased slightly in the following week when the second episode attracted 4.38 million viewers to tune in. The fourth episode (Original title: Œuf ), which is about kidnapped children who have been brainwashed to subsequently murder their own ex-families, was not broadcast at Bryan Fuller's request. This did not come in response to the attack at the Boston Marathon , but was in fact decided just hours beforehand. Some scenes from the episode were cut into several webisodes and published through various online media. On the scheduled broadcast day, the broadcast continued with the fifth episode instead.

At the end of May 2013, a good two weeks after the announcement of the new autumn program, NBC extended the series by a second season with 13 episodes. The broadcast took place from February 28 to May 23, 2014. In May 2014, the production of a third season was announced. However, unlike the previous one, it was only broadcast in the summer of 2015.

In June 2015, NBC announced that it would discontinue the series after the third season due to poor audience ratings, despite positive reviews. The producers announced that they are looking for a new partner for the production of a fourth season.

German-speaking area

In April 2012, ProSiebenSat.1 Media secured the broadcasting rights for free TV for Germany, Austria and Switzerland , while the broadcasting rights for pay TV were held by AXN . Maxdome , the video-on-demand provider of ProSiebenSat.1 Media, had announced that the first season would be released from mid-August 2013. From September 30, 2013, the series was broadcast for the first time on German-language television, on the Austrian channel Puls 4. Free TV broadcast on Sat.1 began on October 10, 2013. The first episode was followed by 1.9 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 10.7 percent. The following week, audience numbers collapsed: only 1.51 million saw the 3rd episode of Hannibal , which equated to a market share of 9 percent. This landed the series below the average quota of Sat. 1. In the third week, the numbers fell again significantly. On October 24, 2013, 0.99 million were watching the 4th episode of the series. That corresponded to a market share of only 4.5 percent.

The German premiere of the second season took place from July 18 to August 22, 2014 on Sat.1 emotions . The third season celebrated its German debut on September 5, 2015 at the video-on-demand provider Maxdome . There was a new episode every week.

reception

In Germany, the first season of the series was largely positively received. The performance of Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter was particularly praised. He is “great” in his role , breathes the character “with his impressive stature and an immobile, controlled face into a creepy life” and gives her “a very distinguished demeanor right down to the Windsor tie knot” . The choice for the embodiment of Hannibal “could not have been better” ; "What Hopkins succeeded in impressively, Mads Mikkelsen can do no less convincingly" in the series.

Philip Kovce wrote in the FAZ that the series creates an eerie tension, which is due not least to the use of music: “It develops an auratic energy in which the images only need to indicate what acoustically has long since penetrated through the marrow . ” On Spiegel Online it was read that the series would almost become a physical burden due to the constant threat of madness, the lack of relaxation and the barely present moments of happiness or humor. In each episode, another series of murders clears up so quickly that one gets dizzy, said Katharina Riehl in the SZ .

Differences to the novel

• In the novel Hannibal Rising it is said that Hannibal Lecter was brought from the orphanage to France by his uncle (Robert Lecter) as a teenager. The uncle died shortly afterwards, after which Hannibal lived for the following years with his widow. However, in the episode Lost Boys , Hannibal says he went to see his uncle Robert.
• According to the novel Red Dragon , Lecter was exposed by Graham in 1975. However, due to the reinterpretation, the series is set today.
• In the novel Red Dragon , Dr. Bloom with the first name Alan, whereas an FBI psychologist named Alana appears in the series.
• In the novel Red Dragon , Freddy Lounds is a sensational male reporter who works for the daily newspaper "The Tattler". Freddy Lounds is female in the series and runs the website "Tattle-Crime.com", where she reports on spectacular serial killers.
• In the novel Hannibal, Hannibal lives as Dr. Fell alone in Florence after escaping prison in The Silence of the Lambs . In the series, he escapes there without having been arrested beforehand, and goes into hiding there with Bedelia, who does not exist in any of the novel templates. He was only caught after his stay in Florence.
• The order of events differs from the novel. The order of the action of the novels is: Hannibal Rising , Red Dragon , The Silence of the Lambs , Hannibal . In the series, most of the events from the book Hannibal take place in the first half of season three, while Red Dragon happens afterwards. The events of The Silence of the Lambs are not covered, with the exception of a few interspersed elements.
• In the novels and films The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal , Clarice Starling is the main character. She is missing from the series (so far), so her role from the novel and the film Hannibal has been split between other characters, for example Alana Clarice gets the part of talking to Hannibal on the phone before he kills Pazzi, and Hannibal replaces Will Rescued and carried away by Mason Verger's farm.
• According to the novel Red Dragon , Dolarhyde is shot dead by Will's wife Molly, while in the series Molly is shot by him and Dolarhyde is killed by Hannibal and Will in the end.
• In the series, Jack Crawford follows Hannibal all the way to Florence and has an argument with him there, while in the novel Hannibal at the time Hannibal is in Florence, he hardly plays a role in the story and does not appear in Florence either.
• Neither in the novel nor in any of the film versions is the relationship between Hannibal and Will portrayed as particularly profound or emotional. On the other hand, she receives the main focus in the series and develops into a deep, complex, co-dependent friendship with features of obsession, spiritual connection and romantically interpretable elements.
• In the novel Red Dragon , Will finds out about Hannibal when he finds out that Hannibal treated one of the murder victims during his time as an emergency surgeon and he wants to question him about the victim. A drawing in Lecter's office, which shows the picture "The Wounded Man" and resembles the injuries inflicted on the victim, makes it clear to Will that Hannibal is the wanted murderer. In the series, it is the young FBI trainee Miriam Lass who finds out in this way that Hannibal is the Chesapeake Ripper. Will, on the other hand, only becomes aware that Hannibal is a serial killer at the end of the first season, when he picks up his murders.
• In Red Dragon , Hannibal is caught after he slit Will's stomach with a linoleum knife, while in the series he escapes after the crime and is not arrested until over eight months later.
• The novel Hannibal Rising describes the history of Hannibal in such a way that Hannibal had to watch as a child how his sister was killed and eaten by Lithuanian collaborators. In his youth he tracks down these men and kills them, but also learns that he also unwittingly and involuntarily took part in his sister's meal at the time. In the series, Hannibal let himself be deterred from killing his sister's murderer and instead puts him in the responsibility of his aunt's maid, who has kept the man imprisoned in the old, abandoned castle of the Lecters for decades. The exact events regarding his sister are only hinted at, but go in a different direction than the novel. Hannibal himself declares that he ate his sister but did not kill it. It is also implied that the act of eating his sister, unlike in the books, did not happen involuntarily or without his knowledge, since in his conversation with Bedelia it emerges that he ate her in order to be able to forgive her.

Publications

The series was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in various countries .

United States

• Season 1 was released on September 24, 2013
• Season 2 was released on September 9, 2014

Great Britain

• Season 1 was released on September 2, 2013
• Season 2 was released on September 22, 2014

Germany

• Season 1 was released on December 20, 2013
• Season 2 was released on December 4, 2014
• Season 3 was released on January 21, 2016
• A complete box was released on December 1, 2016.

Web links

• Hannibal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Hannibal at NBC.com (English)
• Hannibal at Fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

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