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