Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Acting • Born 1934-08-30 – Died 1982-06-11
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.
Filmography
48 credits
Andrei Rublev
Movie • 1966
Andrei Rublev
Solaris
Movie • 1972
Dr. Sartorius
Stalker
Movie • 1979
Writer
Trust
Movie • 1976
Bochazhnikov
The Kurt Clausewitz Case
Movie • 1964
Grandmaster
Movie • 1973
The Balloonist
Movie • 1975
Trasa
Movie • 1979
Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
The Mysterious Old Man
Movie • 1981
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Movie • 1974
Sarychev
Trial on the Road
Movie • 1986
Igor Leonidovich Petushkov
No Path Through Fire
Movie • 1967
Commissar Yevstryukov
One Chance in One Thousand
Movie • 1969
Captain Migunko
The Ascent
Movie • 1977
Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Mirror
Movie • 1975
Forensic Doctor
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
Movie • 1981
Tolik Chikin
The Train Has Stopped
Movie • 1982
Malinin, a journalist
Peasants
Movie • 1981
Pavlik's father
Anyuta's Way
Movie • 1968
Stepan - head of the food detachment
The Hat
Movie • 1981
Anya's stepfather
The Secret of the Notebook
Movie • 1981
Martyn Martynych
The Turning Point
Movie • 1978
Kostik
The Last Day of Winter
Movie • 1975
Соловцов
The Love of Mankind
Movie • 1973
Dmitry Kalmykov
Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
Movie • 1981
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cash Collector's Bag
Movie • 1977
Ivan Timofeyevich
While the Mountains Still Stand...
Movie • 1977
следователь
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Movie • 1981
Colonel
Under a Stone Sky
Movie • 1974
Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
Anyuta's Way
Movie • 1968
Chief
He Foretells Victory
Movie • 1979
Memory
Movie • 1975
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
Movie • 1981
Yuliya Vrevskaya
Movie • 1977
Mikhail Pavlov
The Three Andreis
Movie • 1966
Self
The Prince and the Pauper
Movie • 1972
лорд Сент-Джон
The Bodyguard
Movie • 1979
Sultan Nazar
The Legend of Till
Movie • 1977
Fishmonger
There, Beyond the Horizon
Movie • 1976
Bochazhnikov
In the azure steppe
Movie • 1971
Khatanbaatar
Movie • 1981
Bakich
People's Khatanbaatar
Movie • 1981
Bakich
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
Movie • 1973
Self
Between Sky and Earth
Movie • 1976
Notches For Memory
Movie • 1973
Boomerang
Movie • 1981
McClain - sheriff
Scattered Nest
Movie • 1981
Neznakomiy strannik
To Remember
TV • 1993
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