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