FORBIDDEN FILM

PLASTIC JESUS 8th November 15:00 LHC 4
Original title: PLASTIČNI ISUS
Country: Yugoslavia
Year:  1971
Genre: Docu-Fiction
Run time: 76’
Format: 35mm
Language: Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.

Director:  Lazar Stojanovic

Cast: Tomislav Gotovac, Svetlana Gligorijevic, Vukica Djilas

Synopsis: Tom, from Zagreb, not provided for life, is trying to make a movie in Belgrade. He survives somehow with different women taking him in. He doesn’t believe in anything, doesn't respect anyone, he is sensitive to order and force, to leaders and ideologies, and constantly in conflict with common law. Since some crazy American woman left him, Tom binds himself to a woman whose husband is abroad. When she throws him out, he goes to her sister's husband, who murders him out of jealousy in the end.

Produced in 1971 and immediately labeled subversive with the director Lazar Stojanovic arrested and jailed. This was the only case in the history of the former Yugoslavia that a film maker has been imprisoned because of his work. Only after 20 years was the film publicly screened at home and abroad at the film festival in Montreal in 1991 and awarded by the FIPRESCI jury.

About director: Lazar Stojanović was born in Belgrade in 1944. He is directing, writing and teaching.
He directed a number of short feature and documentary films, TV shows and theatrical plays. He also wrote a number of screenplays for film and television, as well as theatrical texts, essays, and articles of various genres. He published two books and founded an entire theater. He gave lectures in film. He was engaged in journalism. He was graduated in film directing. He lives in USA.

Procedeed with Q&A with Mr. Vanja Valtrovic, expert on Black Wave movement in Yugoslavian cinematography.