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