From 1970 on , he lived with Marie-Louise Bartholomew with whom he had two children . She was also either the producer or at least involved in the production of all his eight feature films and two hundred advertisements . He died on 5 September 2007 aged 67 of pulmonary edema in Athens , Greece . The Thessaloniki International Film Festival held a retrospective in his honor during its tribute program in November 2007 and the Greek Film Archive paid tribute to him between 26 May and 1 June 2011 by projecting his eight feature films . To this day he remains the only Greek filmmaker who was ever awarded the Best Director Award at the Thessaloniki Festival of Greek Cinema or at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival 's Greek State Film Awards five times
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Nikos Nikolaidis