Danish filmmaker-producer Per Holst, who labored with fellow auteurs and countrymen Lars von Trier, Nils Malmros and Bille August, has died on the age of 86.
The Hollywood Reporter cited one among his 4 sons, actor Morten Holst. A reason for loss of life was not given.
In line with Denmark’s government-owned broadcast channel TV 2, son Anders Holst defined his father died peacefully in his sleep Saturday morning. “He leaves behind a cultural legacy that we’re happy with on his behalf,” Anders Holst informed the outlet, including, “He has been energetic till the tip. After all not like in his youth, however to the extent he may. He beloved to learn, watch and discuss movies.”
As a prolific producer of dozens of movies starting within the late ’60s, Holst helped deliver to life the visions of Trier (1987’s The Aspect of Crime), Malmros (1981’s Tree of Data, 1983’s Magnificence and the Beast, 1992’s Ache of Love and 1997’s Barbara) and August (1983’s Zappa, 1984’s Twist & Shout and 1987’s Pelle the Conqueror, which gained the 1988 Palme d’Or at Cannes Movie Pageant and the 1989 Academy Award for Greatest Overseas Movie, giving Denmark a consecutive win within the class after the earlier 12 months’s Babette’s Feast).
Holst additionally directed 1985’s Walter and Carlo — Up on Daddy’s Hat, the primary within the ’80s buddy comedy movie collection, which nonetheless occupies the No. 4 slot on the checklist of highest-grossing Danish movies.
In 1965, he based his personal manufacturing firm, Per Holst Movie, and underneath that banner broke by way of as a producer with the cartoon Benny’s Bathtub in 1971. All through the years, he has held various posts at main movie organizations, together with because the chairman of the board of the European Movie Academy (2000-05) and director of distribution firm Nordisk Movie (1991-2002, the place he first started his profession).
Holst is survived by his spouse and sons.
