Danish filmmaker-producer Per Holst , who worked with fellow auteurs and countrymen Lars von Trier , Nils Malmros and Bille August, has died at the age of 86.

The Hollywood Reporter cited one of his four sons, actor Morten Holst. A cause of death was not given.

According to Denmark’s government-owned broadcast channel TV 2 , son Anders Holst explained his father died peacefully in his sleep Saturday morning. “He leaves behind a cultural legacy that we are proud of on his behalf,” Anders Holst told the outlet, adding, “He has been active until the end. Of course not like in his youth, but to the extent he could. He loved to read, watch and talk about films.”

As a prolific producer of dozens of films beginning in the late ’60s, Holst helped bring to life the visions of Trier (1987’

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