Anatoliy Solonitsyn
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 30, 1934
- Died
- June 11, 1982 (aged 47)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
To Remember
TV · as archivefootage · 1 ep
Trial on the Road
Movie · as Petushkov
The Train Has Stopped
Movie · as Malinin, a journalist
Peasants
Movie · as Artist
The Mysterious Old Man
Movie
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
Movie · as Tolik Chikin
The Hat
Movie · as Anya's stepfather
The Secret of the Notebook
Movie · as Martyn Martynych
26 Days of Dostoyevsky's Life
Movie · as Fyodor Dostoevsky
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Movie · as Colonel
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
Movie
Khatanbaatar
Movie · as Bakich
People's Khatanbaatar
Movie · as Bakich
Boomerang
Movie · as McClain - sheriff
Scattered Nest
Movie · as Neznakomiy strannik
Stalker
Movie · as Writer
Trasa
Movie · as Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
He Foretells Victory
Movie
The Bodyguard
Movie · as Sultan Nazar
The Turning Point
Movie · as Kostik
The Ascent
Movie · as Portnov, Collaborationist Interrogator
Cash Collector's Bag
Movie · as Ivan Timofeyevich
While the Mountains Still Stand...
Movie · as следователь
Yuliya Vrevskaya
Movie · as Mikhail Pavlov
The Legend of Thyl
Movie · as Fishmonger
Trust
Movie · as Bochazhnikov
There, Beyond the Horizon
Movie · as Bochazhnikov
Between Sky and Earth
Movie
The Balloonist
Movie
Mirror
Movie · as Forensic Doctor
The Last Day of Winter
Movie · as Соловцов
Memory
TV · 3 eps
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Movie · as Sarychev
Under a Stone Sky
Movie · as Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
Grandmaster
Movie
The Love of Mankind
Movie · as Dmitry Kalmykov
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
Movie · as Self
Notches For Memory
Movie
Solaris
Movie · as Dr. Sartorius
The Prince and the Pauper
Movie · as лорд Сент-Джон
In the azure steppe
Movie
One Chance in One Thousand
Movie · as Captain Migunko
Anyuta's Way
Movie · as Stepan - head of the food detachment, Chief
No Path Through Fire
Movie · as Commissar Yevstryukov
Andrei Rublev
Movie · as Andrei Rublev
The Three Andreis
Movie · as Self
The Kurt Clausewitz Case
Movie