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