 Due to insufficient evidence, he was released after 17 months; later he wrote a book about his time in prison.After his release he played the ever-optimistic sailor of the Potemkin in Dusan Makavejev's "Sweet Movie" (1974) and the role of Pablo, the seductive saxophone player, in Fred Haines's "Steppenwolf" (also 1974) adapted from the novel by Hermann Hesse.Throughout his career he continued to be active in the theatre.