Hannibal Rising - How it all began
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hannibal Rising - How it all began |
| Original title | Hannibal Rising |
| Country of production | United Kingdom , Czech Republic , France , Italy |
| original language | English , German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | Unrated: approx. 126 minutes Theatrical version: approx . 116 minutes Shortened version: approx. 103 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 18 (uncut version) 16 (cut version) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Webber |
| script | Thomas Harris |
| production |
Tarak Ben Ammar Martha De Laurentiis Dino De Laurentiis |
| music |
Ilan Eshkeri Shigeru Umebayashi |
| camera | Ben Davis |
| cut |
Valerio Bonelli Pietro Scalia |
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| chronology | |
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Hannibal Rising - How it all began ( Hannibal Rising ) is a British-French thriller directed by Peter Webber from 2007. The screenplay was written by Thomas Harris based on his own novel Hannibal Rising , a prequel to the novel Red Dragon .
action
Lithuania in 1944: The Red Army is advancing westwards and is at war with the Wehrmacht . Hannibal Lecter and his sister Mischa leave their home castle with their parents to take shelter in a hunting lodge in the forest. A Russian tank stops at the hut and is spotted and attacked by a dive fighter plane. The tank returned fire, whereupon the plane fell on the tank and both went up in flames. The crews and Hannibal's parents are killed in the process.
Hannibal and his sister are now on their own in the hut in the cold winter. Marauders come along and use the hut as a shelter. When, even after days, there was nothing edible to be found, they kill Misha and eat her meat. Hannibal has to watch the scene, but won't be able to consciously remember it afterwards. Later, wandering aimlessly and mute, he is found by Soviet soldiers who bring him back to the former Lecter Castle, which is now an orphanage of the people. After eight years, Hannibal fled the orphanage to France. From old letters he knows that his uncle Robert Lecter is supposed to live there.
When he arrived in France , he found out that his uncle had already passed away. He finds accommodation on his uncle's estate, where he lives with his Japanese aunt Murasaki. When his aunt is insulted by a butcher in the market, he fights with the man. He later visits the man to kill him with his aunt's Japanese long sword ( katana ). He beheads him and brings his aunt's head. Since the police know that he had an argument with the butcher, he was summoned and interrogated. However, it passes the polygraph test because it shows no emotions.
When high inheritance taxes are due on the uncle's estate, one is forced to sell the uncle's castle. Lecter moves to Paris with aunt Murasaki and starts studying medicine there. He works at the university clinic and learns about the effects of thiopental . He injects this into himself in order to close his memory gaps. To find out more about his sister's murderers, he takes a trip back to Lithuania. There he actually still finds the old identification tags of the marauders in the former hut and now knows their names. He can find one on site and kills him; when he comes into contact with his blood, he licks it off.
Back in France, he visits Kolnas in his restaurant in Fontainebleau and kills him. Most of the marauders emigrated to France. Little by little he seeks her out and kills her as well. Inspector Popil, knowing that Lecter must be the killer, continues investigating but finds no evidence. Aunt Murasaki also knows that Lecter is behind the series of murders and asks Lecter to stop the killing, but unsuccessfully. Before his death, the then leader tells Lecter that he, too, ate his sister's meat without knowing it. He finds and kills his sister's last murderer, Grentz, in Canada.
reception
Reviews
Hannibal Rising met mostly negative reviews and could not match the great success of the previous films financially. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film was rated 15 out of 100 points based on 143 evaluated reviews. As a summarizing consensus it says: "Hannibal Rising reduces the horror icon to an accumulation of everyday psychological properties."
Michael Rechtshaffen wrote in The Hollywood Reporter on February 9, 2007 that director Peter Webber did not manage to translate the novel correctly. Rechtshaffen criticized the "awkward" ("awkward") representations and the "stiff" dialogues. The film fluctuated between "terribly stupid" ("awfully silly") and "terribly boring" ("awfully boring").
James Berardinelli stated in 2007 in very clear words: "[...] bad book, badly played, bad direction [...] there is no style."
“ Prequel located before the films" Roter Drache "and" Das Schweigen der Lämmer ", which is supposed to sound out the motivation of the monstrous serial killer. A formally perfect, visually extremely drastic thriller, which is persistently irritating due to the ambivalence wisely kept in suspension towards the despicable "hero". "
The film was nominated for the negative award Golden Raspberry in the categories "Worst Horror Movie" and " Golden Raspberry / Worst Remake or Continuation ".
Gross profit
Production costs amounted to about 50 million US dollars . The theatrical release in the USA, Germany and Austria was in February 2007. In the USA the film grossed almost 27.7 million US dollars, and abroad a further 55.5 million. With a total box office income of almost 83.2 million US dollars, the production costs were exceeded, but the pure theatrical exploitation means a loss of around 8 million US dollars plus marketing and sales costs for the distributor or producer.
synchronization
The synchronous work took place at FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron in Berlin based on a dialogue book and under the dialogue direction of Joachim Kunzendorf.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Hannibal Lecter | Gaspard Ulliel | Norman Matt |
| Hannibal Lecter as a child | Aaran Thomas | Leo Vornberger |
| Lady Murasaki | Gong Li | Alexandra Wilcke |
| Inspector Popil | Dominic West | Matthias Rimpler |
| Vladis Grutas | Rhys Ifans | Oliver Field |
| Enrikas there | Richard Brake | Hans Hohlbein |
| Petras Kolnas | Kevin McKidd | Stefan Staudinger |
| Zigmas Milko | Stephen Walters | Bernhard Völger |
| Brony's Grentz | Ivan Marevich | Tobias Kluckert |
| Mischa Lecter | Helena Lia Tachovska | Celina Gaschina |
background
The action takes place in Lithuania and France, but the film was shot in the Czech Republic and Great Britain . Kost Castle in the Czech Republic served as the backdrop for the Lecters' family castle ; Villa Tugendhat in Brno was used as the residence of Grutas .
The children's song A Little Man Standing in the Forest plays an important role in the film: it is sung by the murderers of Misha, and Hannibal starts it when he slowly kills the first murderer. The film ends with the song sung by a children's choir.
Web links
- Hannibal Rising - How it all started in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hannibal Rising - How it all began at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Hannibal Rising - How it all began at Metacritic (English)
- Hannibal Rising - How it all started in the online film database
- Hannibal Rising - How it all began in the German dubbing file
- Comparison of the cut versions Theatrical Version - Unrated , FSK 16 - Theatrical Version by Hannibal Rising at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Hannibal Rising - How it all began . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2007 (PDF; test number: 108 901 DVD).
- ↑ Release certificate for Hannibal Rising - How it all began . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, August 2007 (PDF; test number: 108 901-c DVD).
- ↑ a b http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367959/business
- ^ Criticism by Michael Rechtsshaffen
- ^ Review by James Berardinelli
- ↑ Hannibal Rising - How it all began. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367959/awards
- ^ Box office / business for Hannibal Rising
- ↑ Start dates for Hannibal Rising in the IMDb
- ↑ Information page about the film on the box office page boxofficemojo.com
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Hannibal Rising. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .