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Liar Wanted (2010)

Liar Wanted (2010)

Comedy

Politics Greek style

Release Date: 2010, December 23
Directors: Ieroklis Michaelidis
Countries: Greece
Cast: Akis Sakellariou, Michalis Iatropoulos, Klelia Renesi, Maria Filippou, Katia Goulioni, Thanasis Dovris, Pigmalion Dadakaridis, Pavlos Orkopoulos, Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, Fotini Baxevani, Ieroklis Michaelidis, Zeta Makrypoulia

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.