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