Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Biography
Anatoly Alekseyevich Solonitsyn (August 30, 1934, Bogorodsk – June 11, 1982, Moscow) was a Soviet actor of remarkable intensity and philosophical depth, best known for his collaborations with Andrei Tarkovsky. Born in 1934 in Bogorodsk, he became the face of inner struggle and metaphysical searching in Soviet cinema, most famously portraying Andrei Rublev, the tormented painter of icons, and the introspective Writer in Stalker. Solonitsyn’s performances were marked by a quiet magnetism—his stoic presence and penetrating gaze gave form to Tarkovsky’s spiritual explorations. Though he appeared in a range of Soviet films, his legacy is inseparable from Tarkovsky’s cinema, where he embodied characters wrestling with art, faith, and the weight of history. His life was cut short in 1982 by cancer, yet his work remains timeless—an imprint of the soul etched in celluloid.
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Movies (46)
Trial on the Road
as Igor Leonidovich Petushkov
1986
The Train Has Stopped
as Malinin, a journalist
1982
Scattered Nest
as Neznakomiy strannik
1981
The Secret of the Notebook
as Martyn Martynych
1981
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
as Colonel
1981
Peasants
as Pavlik's father
1981
Boomerang
as McClain - sheriff
1981
The Mysterious Old Man
1981
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
as Tolik Chikin
1981
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
1981
The Hat
as Anya's stepfather
1981
Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
as Fyodor Dostoevsky
1981
Khatanbaatar
as Bakich
1981
People's Khatanbaatar
as Bakich
1981
He Foretells Victory
1979
Stalker
as Writer
1979
Trasa
as Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
1979
The Bodyguard
as Sultan Nazar
1979
The Turning Point
as Kostik
1978
Cash Collector's Bag
as Ivan Timofeyevich
1977
Yuliya Vrevskaya
as Mikhail Pavlov
1977
The Legend of Till
as Fishmonger
1977
The Ascent
as Павел Гаврилович Портнов, следователь у фашистов
1977
While the Mountains Still Stand...
as следователь
1977
There, Beyond the Horizon
as Bochazhnikov
1976
Trust
as Bochazhnikov
1976
Between Sky and Earth
1976
The Balloonist
1975
The Last Day of Winter
as Соловцов
1975
Mirror
as Forensic Doctor
1975
Memory
1975
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
as Сарычев
1974
Under a Stone Sky
as Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
1974
Grandmaster
1973
Notches For Memory
1973
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
as Self
1973
The Love of Mankind
as Dmitry Kalmykov
1973
Solaris
as Dr. Sartorius
1972
The Prince and the Pauper
as лорд Сент-Джон
1972
In the azure steppe
1971
One Chance in One Thousand
as Captain Migunko
1969
Анютина дорога
as Stepan - head of the food detachment
1968
No Path Through Fire
as Commissar Yevstryukov
1967
The Three Andreis
as Self
1966
Andrei Rublev
as Andrei Rublev
1966
The Kurt Clausewitz Case
1964
