Kirkov was among the prominent Bulgarian film and theatre directors from the last decades of the 20th century. He directed some of the most popular Bulgarian films of that time, most notably
The Swedish Kings (1968),
The Boy Turns Man (1972),
A Peasant on a Bicycle (1974),
Matriarchy (1977) and the hit film
A Nameless Band (1982). He received the Silver Prize for the film
Balance (1983) at the
13th Moscow International Film Festival. In the 1975, Kirkov was nominated for the Golden Prize at the
9th Moscow International Film Festival for the film
A Peasant on a Bicycle. ==Filmography==