Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Acting
Born: 1934-08-30 in Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
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.
Known For
Stalker
Writer
To Remember
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Solaris
Dr. Sartorius
Mirror
Forensic Doctor
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Rublev
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Colonel
The Ascent
Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
The Love of Mankind
Dmitry Kalmykov
Memory
The Balloonist
Trial on the Road
Petushkov
Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Train Has Stopped
Malinin, a journalist
Yuliya Vrevskaya
Mikhail Pavlov
The Legend of Thyl
Fishmonger
Between Sky and Earth
No Path Through Fire
Commissar Yevstryukov
The Prince and the Pauper
лорд Сент-Джон
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
Tolik Chikin
Peasants
artist
The Last Day of Winter
Соловцов
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Sarychev
Grandmaster
The Turning Point
Kostik
Notches For Memory
The Three Andreis
Self
Boomerang
McClain - sheriff
The Secret of the Notebook
Martyn Martynych
One Chance in One Thousand
Captain Migunko
Under a Stone Sky
Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
The Mysterious Old Man
He Foretells Victory
The Hat
Anya's stepfather
Trust
Bochazhnikov
The Bodyguard
Sultan Nazar
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
Self
Khatanbaatar
Bakich
Trasa
Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
The Kurt Clausewitz Case
People's Khatanbaatar
Bakich