MUMBAI: Michael Sarrazin, remembered for his role opposite Jane Fonda in the 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don‘t They? expired in Montreal after a brief encounter with Cancer. He was 70.

It may be remembered that Horses was nominated for nine Oscars and won a single statuette for Gig Young‘s supporting role in the film in which Fonda played a suicidal woman who heads to Hollywood and meets up with Sarrazin‘s character, an aspiring director. The two enter a grueling dance marathon during which she tries to convince him to shoot her and put her out of her misery. 

Besides Tunisia, more than 12 countries took part in the festival, including Japan, Mexico and the United States. All films featured were categorised as writers‘ films or films belonging to the independent cinema as opposed to commercial films.

Sarrazin was born Jacques Michel Andre Sarrazin in Quebec City in 1940 and later moved with his family to Montreal.

In 1965, Sarrazin signed with Universal and became one of the last actors to come out of the studio. He went on to land a few roles, including playing a Confederate soldier 1968‘s Journey to Shiloh, opposite Harrison Ford and earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role as a slacker surfer in The Sweet Ride.