Liar Wanted (Ζητείται Ψεύτης)

Politics Greek style

Overview

This bitter political satire is based on a theatre play, later made to a movie, of which the current film is a remake.It's main focus is the clientelistic character of Greek politics which makes a well-meaning but naive Health minister to employ an ambitious young provincial with a talent for lying in order to handle the diverse demands of his volatile political clientèle.The provincial becomes the mastermind behind every move of the minister causing the envy of the minister's closest associates and of his good-looking wife, played by rising Greek media star Zeta Makrypoulia. Changes of fortune abound and finally the plot reveals that the lying provincial is not a bad person in heart although he never denounces lying as a survival strategy.

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Cast

Ieroklis Michaelidis

Theofilos Ferekis

Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos

Theodoros Parlas

Zeta Makrypoulia

Jenny Fereki

Pigmalion Dadakaridis

Leonidas

Pavlos Orkopoulos

Agis

Michalis Iatropoulos

Karabekos

Fotini Baxevani

Koula

Katia Goulioni

Kali

Thanasis Dovris

Giannis

Klelia Renesi

Stella B

Akis Sakellariou

Hatzigeorgiou

Maria Filippou

Mitera Thodorou

Tasos Kostis

Dimitris Mavropoulos

Katerina Papadaki

Chara