Gov't Oks 630K euros for film by Costa Gavras based on Varoufakis best-seller 'Adults in the Room'

The grant, allocated by the digital policy ministry, was posted on Wednesday on an online platform listing all the state expenditures.

Varoufakis' "Adults in the Room" details the events leading up to the summer of 2015, when the Tsipras government - in which the self-described "erratic Marxist" was the most prominent minister - was clashed with institutional creditors, called a controversial referendum on the latter's (withdrawn) last offer, imposed capital controls, and finally gave way to creditors' demands.

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"Adults in the Room": Sprays of the new film by Kostas Gavras in Athens

The film is the brainchild of veteran Greek-French filmmaker Costa-Gavras, who is also the director.

Varoufakis was the hard left government's "point man" in failed negotiations with creditors, with an already double-flown Greece flirting with "Grexit" in the summer of 2015.

Undeterred, and suddenly enjoying global celebrity status, Varoufakis publicly and loudly disagreed with PM Alexis Tsipras' compromise, ditching SYRIZA and declining not to run for the Parliament in the snap September 2015 elections.

According to reports, the award-winning Gavras is already shooting in Athens, Brussels, Riga, Frankfurt and London. Beyond the Greek actors picked to portray Varoufakis, Tsipras and others, the 86-year-old filmmaker, best known for the 1968 "Z" and the 1982 "Missing", tapped actress Valeria Golino to play Varoufakis' wife, Danae; Josiane Pinson plays Christine Lagarde and Ulrich Tukur portrays by Wolfgang Schauble.