Directed by: Peter Webber
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Li Gong, Gaspard Ulliel, Aaran Thomas, Helena-Lia Tachovska
Factual error: Hannibal makes a bomb using latex gloves that were not in use during the early 50's when the movie takes place. (01:28:35)
Factual error: In the scene where a young Hannibal dissects the corpses in the mortuary, there is a black and white coronal MRI slice cutting through eye-balls and fronal lobes of the brain on the wall. MRI was invented in the 70s.
Factual error: Hannibal makes a bomb using latex gloves that were not in use during the early 50's when the movie takes place. (01:28:35)
Lady Murasaki: They will call it murder.
Hannibal Lecter: At worst a crime of passion.
Question: Hannibal is shot in the back, then turned over as the villian plunges a knife into Hannibal's thigh three times, saying, "He's paralysed, he can't feel this." But Hannibal stands up and is perfectly fine. There's no damage from the bullet or the knife. How is this possible?
Answer: As an aristocratic Lithuanian family living in a castle, the Lecters would probably not have still been living there by the time of the German occupation when the film starts. That's because the Soviet Union invaded and annexed the three Baltic states in 1940 (including Lithuania) and deported many so-called 'class enemies' to 'special settlements', many of which were in remote or internal regions of the USSR. The Lecters would have likely been gone by the time Nazi Germany invaded in 1941, let alone 1944 when they were retreating. Author Thomas Harris and the subsequent film screenwriters overlooked this obvious historical fact when writing the story.
Chosen answer: Hannibal has the Japanese dagger on his back, and when he gets it out you can see there is a bullet hole on it indicating that the bullet hit the dagger. Grutas just pokes Hannibal in the leg with the knife, he doesn't actually stab him, it doesn't even tear his clothes.
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