Lazar Stojanović

Lazar Stojanović (1 March 1944 – 4 March 2017) was a director, journalist, intellectual, anti-war activist and one of the most prominent cultural dissidents of socialist Yugoslavia. His movie Plastic Jesus (1971) was banned in SFR Yugoslavia for eighteen years (1972–1990) and has caused Stojanović several years of imprisonment. After the collapse of Yugoslavia, during Slobodan Milošević’s regime in the 1990s, Stojanović was a journalist, theatre and documentary film director and anti-war activist.