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