Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character in a series of suspense novels written by Thomas Harris. He is a cannibal doctor. Lecter first appeared in the horror novel "Red Dragon" in 1981, followed by "The Silent Lamb" in 1988, "Human Demon" in 1999, and in the 2006 "Silent Lamb Prequel: Uncovering Crimes" screen".

The first film adaptation of the novel "The Hunter" is based on the novel "Red Dragon", with Brian Cox playing Hannibal. Anthony Hopkins won the 1991 Oscar for Best Actor for the role of Hannibal in the film adaptation of the novel "The Silent Lambs"; Hopkins went on to win the 1991 film "Human Demon" and 2002 The "Red Dragon" of 1984 continued to serve as this role. The fourth novel adaptation of the film Hannibal Rising was released in 2007. The young Lecter was starred by French actor Gaspard Ulliel.

The TV series "Hannibal" was broadcast on NBC on April 4, 2013. The story mainly tells the relationship between Hannibal and the FBI agent Will Graham. Des Mickelson played Hannibal, and Mickelson won the Saturn Award in 2014 for this role.

Life experience set in the novel

Hannibal was born in a noble family in Lithuania in 1933 and lived in Fort Lecter. He experienced the occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union (1940) and Nazi Germany (1941) during World War II. In childhood (1944), Germany was defeated in the Baltic offensive of the Soviet army and began to withdraw into Lithuania under its own rule. So the Lecter family came to the hunting hut in the woods to avoid the German army. Soon the hut was affected by the fighting between the attacking Soviet army and the defensive German army. His parents were killed and Hannibal and his sister Meisha depended on each other. In the cold winter, several Lithuanian volunteer assistants who had joined the German army broke into the hut (now these people have left the German army and killed their checkmate German commander in revenge when they robbed the house after looting a Soviet army vehicle. ), because of hunger, they killed Meisha who was suffering from pneumonia and then ate it. Hannibal suffered a severe psychological impact and has not spoken for eight years.