Plastic Jesus

Tom is a young man from Zagreb. He is trying to make films in Belgrade. He has no money. He gets by on help from women. He trusts nobody. He respects nobody either. He is in constant conflict with the order around him. An American woman leaves him. He then takes up with a woman whose husband is abroad. She turns him out as well. He moves in next with her husband’s sister. In the end she kills him. Archive footage runs through the story. The footage is of world leaders. The ground under it is what happened before 1968. The film was banned in the year it was made. The director was arrested in 1972 and convicted by a military court. It could only be shown in 1990. Tomislav Gotovac appears in the seventy three minute film, a Yugoslav production Lazar Stojanović finished in 1971.