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Filmmaker · Bulgaria

Lyudmil Kirkov

Died in 1995

Born on 14 December 1933 in Vratsa, he graduated in 1955 from the directing section of the institute of theatre arts in Sofia and staged Shaw, Shakespeare and Yavorov at the theatres of Haskovo, Vratsa and Varna, before training in film directing in Moscow, in 1959, under Mikhail Romm. From 1961 to 1987, he made around fifteen films, several of them shot in his native town, with the writers Georgi Mishev or Stanislav Stratiev. He died in Sofia on 12 December 1995, two days before his birthday.

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