"Mard-e-Hezar Chehre" which means "the man with thousand faces" is about a normal employee in shiraz (mehran modiri, known in the series as masud shastchi) who wants to marry a girl (played by flamak junaidi). but her dad only allows masud to marry his daughter if he gets all the money in sepehr jandaghi's (falamak junaidi's brother) bank account, by claiming that he is sepehr. but when masud goes in the bank to empty sepehr's account, he finds out that sepehr has won a car and he has to go to tehran to get the car.

when he goes there, at first a person thinks that a really good doctor, who has contributed to science and medicine in the west, and then he is forced to do surgeries in the tabibian hospital. after he runs away from the insane tabibian family who think that he is a doctor, he becomes a senior general and he dictates all the inferior soldiers and arrests every man in order to diminish the rate of crime. after several days of dictatorship and torturing people, he realises that he has been an evil person and he tries to run away and go back home, but then he becomes a poet and the story goes on and on...

the name "hezar chehreh" derives from دزد هزار چهره and the series consists of many real characters. for example the poet that mehran modiri goes to his funeral is محمود مشرف تهرانی but they don't say who he actually is and he is only called tehrani m.

It is really hilarious and it is among the best new tv series. for further information on marde hezar chehreh go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/arts/story/2008/03/080329_bd-sj-norouz-serials.shtml [1]