Lazar Stojanovic (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 Stojanovic several years of imprisonment.
After the collapse of Yugoslavia, during Slobodan Miloševic’s regime in the 1990s, Stojanovic was a journalist, theatre and documentary film director and anti-war activist.