The filmmaker received the Oscar for best documentary film in 1983 for Just Another Missing Kid, one on the disappearance of a young Canadian between Ottawa and Colorado in the United States.
Canadian director John Zaritsky, who received the Oscar for best documentary film in 1983, died of a heart attack at the age of 79, local media reported on Monday April 4. He had received the statuette for his documentary Just Another Missing Kidfocusing on the investigation into the disappearance of a 19-year-old Canadian boy while traveling between Ottawa and Colorado, United States.
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Born in the Canadian province of Ontario, John Zaritsky died of a heart attack on March 30 in Vancouver, British Columbia (west), after a career spanning more than 40 years, according to media reports. confirmed the information with his family.
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In 2008, the broadcast on a British channel of one of his documentaries entitled Right to die? showing the assisted suicide of a man suffering from Charcot’s disease caused an outcry in the United Kingdom and revived the painful debate on the right to kill oneself.
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