Ζητείται Ψεύτης

Ζητείται Ψεύτης

90 mins | Comedy | Dec. 23, 2010

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.

Ζητείται Ψεύτης

90 mins | Comedy | Dec. 23, 2010

Ζητείται Ψεύτης
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.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers
Original title Ζητείται Ψεύτης
Directors Ieroklis Michaelidis
Writers Panagiotis Mantziafos, Dimitris Psathas

Cast

Ieroklis Michaelidis

as Theofilos Ferekis

Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos

as Theodoros Parlas

Zeta Makrypoulia

as Jenny Fereki

Pigmalion Dadakaridis

as Leonidas

Fotini Baxevani

as Koula

Michalis Iatropoulos

as Karabekos

Katia Goulioni

as Kali

Klelia Renesi

as Stella B

Akis Sakellariou

as Hatzigeorgiou

Maria Filippou

as Mitera Thodorou

Thanasis Dovris

as Giannis