Liar Wanted
2010 · 90 MIN · IMDB 5.9 · 741 VOTES · DIR. Ieroklis Michaelidis
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,126 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:13 Have you done your homework, Thodoros?
00:05:09 -Coming in from the balcony, again? -What can we do, Calliope?
00:08:24 who is in prison for mur...
00:11:44 -Representative. - Minister.
00:14:24 Ferekis...a nobody, an amateur!
00:18:14 - What were you looking at? - What was I looking at?
00:21:36 - Is this Mr. Ferekis' house? - Have you got an appointment?
00:24:39 - I'm sorry but you got a lot of nerve. - Excuse me?
00:27:31 I don't know. I mean...
00:30:12 What's up, soldier? Is that how you treat a pal?
00:33:23 Why are you sitting here? There are many tables in the front.
00:36:35 - Yet another jacket, Thodoros? - Be patient, Minister.
00:40:24 So? The Chinese are our friends. And besides, they manufacture the gloves.
00:43:16 - Are we barbarians? - No, but what are we going to do?
00:46:27 We'll leave the fresh air to shut ourselves in the centre?
00:49:40 Good. Thank you.
00:53:31 ...if you got the flowers and that's how I found out.
00:57:20 - This is very hard for me. - For me too!
01:01:00 about an issue concerning Stella and right at that moment...
01:04:18 Why don't you sit down?
01:07:32 I'm not hungry. I'm in pain.
01:10:58 I'm the Minister!
01:14:23 It's over. I'll go and pack my things from the Ministry.
01:19:49 And if one wanted to hear the truth, they wouldn't have voted for us.