Hannibal (2001) Anthony Hopkins Hannibal Lecter Julianne Moore Clarice Starling Ray Liotta Paul Krendler Frankie Faison Barney Giancarlo Giannini Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi Francesca Neri Allegra Pazzi Zeljko Ivanek Doctor Cordell Doemling Hazelle Goodman Evelda Drumgo David Andrews FBI Agent Pearsall Francis Guinan FBI Director Noonan James Opher DEA Agent Eldridge Enrico Lo Verso (II) Gnocco Ivano Marescotti Carlo Deogracias Fabrizio Gifuni Matteo Alex Corrado Piero Marco Greco Tommaso Robert Rietti Sogliato Terry Serpico Officer Bolton Boyd Kestner Special Agent Burke Peter Shaw Special Agent Brigham Directed by: Ridley Scott Produced by: Branko Lustig, Dino de Laurentiis, Martha de Laurentiis Ten years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody, ten years since FBI Agent Agent Clarice Starling interviewed him in a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane. The doctor is now at large in Europe, pursuing his own interests and savoring the scents and essences of an unguarded world. But Starling has never forgotten her encounters with Dr. Lecter, and the metallic rasp of his seldom-used voice still haunts her dreams. But Mason Verger remembers Dr. Lecter, too, and is obsessed with revenge. Verger was Dr. Lecter's sixth victim, and though hideously disfigured, has survived to rule a vast financial empire. Verger soon realizes that in order to draw the doctor out into the open, he must use someone Lecter cannot resist as bait: Clarice Starling. ========== Part four in the Hannibal Lecter Quadrilogy. Having escaped the asylum in "Silence of the Lambs," Dr Lecter goes into hiding in Florence, Italy. Back in America, Mason Verger, an old victim of the doctor's, seeks revenge. Disfigured and confined to a life-support system, he plans to draw Lecter out of his hiding place, using the one thing he truly cares for: Clarice Starling. ========== After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he is discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns back to America to once again make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI official/rival as well as the media. Meanwhile, Hannibal must survive the advances by a disfigured and vengeful victim he first came in contact with years ago as a patient. He finds himself being tracked down not only by his wealthy victim and his henchmen but also by Agent Starling and the American authorities.