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Liar Wanted

Liar Wanted

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 23, 2010

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

54%

Original Title

Ζητείται Ψεύτης

Director

Ieroklis Michaelidis

Description

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.