Krsto Papić (7 December 1933 – 7 February 2013)[2] was a Croatian screenwriter and film director whose career spanned over five decades.

He was the member of the Zagreb filmophile circle influenced by the French New Wave, so-called "Hitchcockians", along with film-makers and critics Ante Peterlić, Zoran Tadić, Branko Ivanda, Petar Krelja and centered on film critics Vladimir Vuković and Hrvoje Lisinski.

Papić's two best-known early feature films, Lisice and Predstava Hamleta u Mrduši Donjoj, were often attacked from the government sources.

[4] Izbavitelj was heavily criticised by Stipe Šuvar, who alluded that film's allegory about fascism actually also refers to the communism.

Particularly My Uncle's Legacy, a critical film about Yugoslavia's political situation under Titoism during Informbiro period, (nominated for the Golden Globe in 1989)[6] was surrounded by controversy and political attacks from traditional Party circles and especially Partisan Veterans' organisations, leading to a delay of production.