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Hannibal Rising

This prequel shows Hannibal Lecter from childhood in Lithuania, to his teen and young adulthood years in France, and up to his arrival in North America.

The film begins in 1944, when Lecter is eight years old, living in Lecter Castle; constructed by his paternal ancestor, Hannibal the Grim, in the Lithuanian countryside. Lecter, his younger sister Mischa and his parents escape to the family’s hunting lodge in the woods to elude the advancing German troops. Back at Lecter Castle, six Lithuanian militiamen (Grutas, Dortlich, Grentz, Kolnas, Milko, and Pot Watcher) request to join the Waffen-SS. The SS commander orders them to kill the Lecters’ Jewish cook who was left behind, to which they gleefully comply.

A Soviet tank stops at the Lecters’ lodge looking for water, and forces everyone out of the house. However, the tank is then spotted by a German Stuka bomber, which sparks a firefight. The bomber is shot down by the tank, but subsequently crashes into it and the ensuing explosion kills everyone, except Hannibal and Mischa.